The Creative Process and Travel

Authors

  • Robin Hemley University of Iowa Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v4i2.313

Keywords:

travel, creative writing, study abroad, student writers, overseas writing conference, Prague summer program

Abstract

Writing trips overseas are recalled and proposed as a valuable source of inspiration for budding writers when they are thrown into a new context. The focus of discussion is on a program that takes a creative writing class abroad as part of the university curriculum.

Author Biography

  • Robin Hemley, University of Iowa

    Robin Hemley has authored ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including Turning Life into Fiction; Do-Over!; and most recently, A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Travel, and Journalism (University of Georgia Press); and Reply All, his third collection of award-winning stories (Break Away Books, Indiana University Press). He has taught creative writing workshops around the world and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa, is the founder of the biennial conference NonfictioNow, is a senior editor at The Iowa Review and the editor of the online magazine, Defunct (Defunctmag.com). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

References

Didion, J. (1983) Salvador. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Hampl, P. (1999) A Romantic Education. New York: W.W. Norton (originally published by Houghton Mifflin).

O’Connor, F. (1955) Good country people. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Published

2012-12-28

Issue

Section

Reflections on Practice

How to Cite

Hemley, R. (2012). The Creative Process and Travel. Writing and Pedagogy, 4(2), 313-318. https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v4i2.313

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