Associate Professor Cass Dalglish, MFA, Ph.D.
Office: Memorial 224
Wednesday afternoons: by appointment
Friday afternoons: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and later by appointment
Weekend Saturdays: by appointment after class
Phone: 612.330.1009
dalglish@augsburg.edu
Design
This is a s plan for a writing circle, a place where we will come together to read... to think... to talk... and to dance with our words into the quiet of dreams and out again. We will write and we will coach each other. We are all teachers; we are all learners; we are all writers.
Books
How to Build a Long Lasting Fire, by Carol Morrison
On Writing Short Stories, edited by Tom Bailey
Additional books and articles will be suggested; handouts will be supplied during the term.
You will need an empty journal and a good deal of empty paper to fill up. Buy a writing practice book,this is simply a blank notebook, one you'll enjoy holding in your hands and writing in. Any kind of notebook will do as long as you like writing in it. You may even do your writing practice on palm with a keyboard. Observe yourself. See what pleases you when you write.
Internet access to websites with real audio of writers and poets reading their work. Before class, visit The Cortland Review http://www.cortlandreview.com
Workshop
Note: I'll be delivering keynote address at the Red River World Literature Conference in Fargo during the weekend of the second scheduled class, April 27. When we are all together on April 20, we will schedule makeup time in the form of Fiction Writing Workshop Sessions. See you April 20. Cass
Before our first class, make sure you:
Buy your texts.
Read Long Lasting Fire ch. 1, "Preparing for the Fire," & ch. 2, "Choosing the Wood," to page 37.
Complete the assignments called "firestarters" on pages 17 & 18 & 24 and bring them to class on May 5.
Scan the newspapers, grocery store tabloids, articles and advertisements in magazines for articles that have some good images, good words, good smells, good sights, good sounds, good textures in them. Rip out two or three articles and bring them to our first class.
Bring to class on the first day:
Your favorite writing colors... magic marker, crayons, pencils, chalks... I will supply the paper.
We will illuminate our dreams.
A permanent ink felt tip marker and a scissors to cut up words from the newspaper articles you bring.
We will make our own poetry magnet kits.
Come to class ready to talk and write.
Continuing assignments available at our first class meeting.
Cass Dalglish, Ph.D.
