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In early 2023, the Center for the Literary Arts named Ji-Eun Lee, Flora Cassen, and Edward McPherson as the first three members of its Creative Practice Workshop. This interdisciplinary workshop provides a semester leave and dedicated workspace for WashU faculty to collaborate, produce, and share work.
Lee and Cassen officially joined the workshop at the start of the Fall 2023 semester – McPherson bowed out after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship for his proposed workshop project.
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For Lee, the experience of working in a tightly knit, highly collaborative environment has been a breath of fresh air.
“I’m so used to being isolated on campus, especially in my research work,” Lee said. “So being in this environment, where we talk about the substance of my work, it’s very pleasant. It reminds me of why I started – why I decided to be a scholar of literature in the first place, because of the love of reading and thinking about words and expressions.”
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Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant Info Session
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CLA will host an informal session at noon on October 20 in DUC 241 for students interested in applying for the Fulbright grant in fall 2024.
We’ll discuss how to prepare for the extensive application process as a creative practitioner, including tips for starting your project proposal, finding potential affiliations abroad, and more.
Please RSVP here to be included in the session.
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| Creative Practice Workshop Info Session
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Learn more about the Center for the Literary Arts' Creative Practice Workshop from initiative co-director Ignacio Infante, including how to apply. The session will take place November 3 at noon.
Please RSVP here to be included in the session.
Applications for the next Workshop (Fall 2024) will be due on December 1, 2023.
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Join the WashU Performing Arts Department for a conversation with Brooklyn-based choreographer Leslie Cuyjet, this year's Marcus Guest Artist in Residence, in which she will discuss the importance of writing to her creative process.
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In 2021, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr became the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded France’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for his fourth novel, The Most Secret Memory Of Men. Sarr will present a talk and take part in a conversation with Dr. Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu, assistant professor of English.
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Thank you to all who attended our events with Mary-Alice Daniel and Simone White! We loved seeing the WashU and St. Louis literary arts communities show up to experience readings and conversations with these two celebrated authors.
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Mary-Alice Daniel, photo by Sean Garcia
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Simone White (right) interacts with an audience member after her talk, photo by Danny Reise
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