Portland State University s Center for Excellence in Writing presents author Mark Poirier and the weekend workshop Landscape and Setting. The seminar and workshop will examine two contemporary masters of landscape and setting, Annie Proulx and Rick Bass. Students should provide writing examples from their own fiction for critique. The seminar will also provide in-class exercises designed to help approach writing landscape and setting from different angles.
Space is limited.
Academic credit available by arrangement. Mark Poirier has taught undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins and Louisiana State University. He held a Teaching Fellowship at Hopkins, a Maytag Fellowship at Iowa, and was a James Michener Fellow last year.