Announcement:
THE ART OF NONFICTION: TELLING STORIES
with CWA Writer in Residence
and Medill Senior Lecturer
ALEX KOTLOWITZ
Winter Quarter 2009
Mondays 2:00-5:00 pm
Click here to download the application.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October, 22nd.
Alex Kotlowitz, NU Writer in Residence for Winter Quarter 2009. Award-winning author of There Are No Children Here, The Other Side of the River, and Never a City So Real. Contributor to The New York Times Magazine and public radio’s This American Life. Alex Kotlowitz is renowned for his narratives of particular individuals whose concrete life experiences illuminate broad aspects of our nation’s social and political landscape.
Writers in Residence
Sefi Atta
Visiting Writer in Residence Fall Quarter 2008
Sefi Atta will teach Writing 301, The Art of Fiction
Sefi Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was educated there, in England and the United States. Her short stories have appeared in journals like Los Angeles Review and Mississipi Review and have won prizes from Zoetrope and Red Hen Press. Her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC. She is the winner of PEN International's 2004/2005 David TK Wong Prize and in 2006, her debut novel Everything Good Will Come was awarded the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. More...
