Puerto Rico Writers Workshop
Summer 2009

Program Description
This program offers committed writers time to write in a “writers’ colony”-style environment and to distribute their work for workshopping among their classmates and instructor. Students will enroll in one of several writing courses to pursue a writing project of their own choice during a two-week period of intensive writing and revision.  Students may bring a nearly-completed project with them to finish; a draft of a project; or develop an idea that they work into a substantial draft. The final revision of a student’s work is due two weeks after the date on which the student returns to Atlanta. The program is not restricted to English majors or to graduate students in the M.A. in Professional Writing Program. Those in other disciplines and individuals without a university affiliation but with a strong desire to write, including area teachers, are welcome into the program.

Program Dates
Dates for the summer 2009 program are:
Session 1: 18-30 May
Session 2: June 1-13
Session 3: 22 June-4 July
Session 4: 6-18 July

Note: Students arrive on a Monday and leave on a Saturday.

Program Cost
The program cost is $1,750.00 if application is received on or before December 1, 2008. The early-application deposit is $300.
After December 1, 2008, the program cost is $1,850.00. The deposit for application received after this date is $400.
The final deadline for all applications is January 15, 2009.
Program cost does not include tuition or airfare.
Students who enroll in more than one session must pay in full for all sessions attended.

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Housing
Students will stay in condos along or near Avenida Ashford, one of San Juan’s most luxurious thoroughfares. Each will have his/her own bedroom. Most condos have two bedrooms, all have kitchens, and all are fully-equipped with linens, cooking utensils, etc.

Courses
Each course offers three semester hours credit. Students may enroll in up to, but no more than, two courses for a total of six semester hours credit in any given summer. Classes meet M, W and F,  9 a.m. to noon. The courses that are offered are:

• PRWR 7950: Directed Study,
• PRWR 7500: Advanced Creative Writing/Poetry,
• PRWR 6520: Creative Nonfiction,
• PRWR 6470: Poetry Writing,
• PRWR 6460: Fiction Writing,
• PRWR 6410: Feature Writing,
• WRIT 4120: Advanced Creative Writing/Poetry,
• WRIT 3130: Literary Nonfiction, and
• WRIT 3100: Poetry Writing.

Students who are not English majors or who are not in the M.A. in Professional Writing Program should contact Dr. Elledge regarding getting credit for this program in their home department or program.

Faculty Background
Dr. Jim Elledge is the director of the M.A. in Professional Writing Program at Kennesaw State University. A poet, he has taught and published in a wide variety of genres, not just creative writing. His most recent full-length collection, A History of My Tattoo, won the Lambda Literary Award in gay male poetry, a national competition, and the Georgia Author of the Year award in poetry, as well as being a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in gay male poetry, another national competition. He’s at work on two new collections of poetry and a biography of Henry Darger, an outsider artist.