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WRITING AT MEREDITH
Susie Potter
Staff Writer'
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When a Meredith College student says, “I’m an Eng
lish major,” she is almost always met by impressed and
slightly incredulous looks from her fellow students.
Meredith’s English majors are known for pulling long
library hours, writing lengthy papers and being inextri
cably bound- to their Bedford Handbooks. What many
people don’t know, however, is that Meredith College
also offers an equally impressive (and rigorous) writing
program that boasts some outstanding staff members.
Students at Meredith can now opt for a minor in pro-
fessional writing. According to the Meredith College
website, “this 21-credit program emphasizes not only
writing, but also visual and oral communication and in
formation technologies used in the workplace.” Profes
sional writing students participate in classes as varied
as web design, art, public speaking and fiction or poetry
writing. The program is headed by Rebecca Duncan and
has attracted many English (and other) majors since it
began. Even those students who do not wish to pursue
a minor in professional writing can hone their writing
skills by participating in a fiction writing or a creative
non-fiction writing course at Meredith.
The college also offers several writing prograjns to.
the community as well as the student body. A weeklong
“Young Writers’ Camp” is hosted every year. Middle
school students are invited to read and talk about lit
erature and work on writing projects of their own. The
program is led by Meredith faculty, which includes
published writers.
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Also, since 1997, the-English department has hosted
a writing workshop for women in the community. Ac
cording to the Meredith College website, Betty Adcock,
Meredith’s retired writer-in-residence, taught a poetry
class in last year’s workshop. She has also published
six books of poetry and won the following awards: the
Pushcart Prize, the Roanoke-Chowan award, the Zoe
Kincaid Brockman Award, the North Carolina Award
for Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was
co-winner (with Carolyn Kizer) of the Poets’ Prize for
2. Last year’s program also boasted a fiction workshop
taught by Louise Hawes, author of Anteaters Don’t
Dream, and other stories and multiple novels, and a
non-fiction course taught by Zelda Lockhart, author of
2007’s Cold Running Creek.
Meredith’s current writer-in-residence is Angela
Davis-Gardner. According to Davis-Gardner’s website,
http://www.angeladavisgardner.com/index.html, “An
gela Davis-Gardner’s first job after graduate school was
teaching at Tokyo’s Tsuda College. In the intervening
years—during which she published the novels Felice
and Forms of Shelter is well as a number of short sto
ries and essays—she had wanted to write a novel set
in Japan. But two decades passed before Pluin Wine,
Davis-Gardner’s latest novel, was conceived.” Davis-
Gardner teaches creative fiction writing course on
Tuesday nights.
In celebration of Meredith’s amazing writing pro
gram, this issue of the Meredith Herald is dedicated to
the work of Meredith College students. ■
Green Tip for
the Week of
March 18
Don’t use the toilet
as a waste basket;
throw tissues and
trash in the garbage
to minimize flushes.
During the 2008-09 academic
year, Meredith College’s cam
pus theme is “Sustaining our
Environment: Developing
our Greenprint” To help the
Meredith community make
daily choices that are ben
eficial to the environment,
Angels for the Environment
have compiled a year’s worth
of tips for greener living.
To view green tips from
previous weeks, visit wvm.
meredlth.edu/campus-theme/
environmental-tips.htm.