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The PLU English Major and ConcentrationsEnglish majors at PLU complete three core courses that introduce the skills of creative and critical reading and writing that unite all three concentrations of our major. ENGL 227 – Introduction to Creative Writing ENGL 275 – Literary Passages: An Introduction to Literatures in English ENGL 300 – Living Stories Students then complete one of three Concentrations: The Creative Writing Concentration allows students to hone their craft in a variety of genres
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Lutes to teach English abroad through Fulbright Program Posted by: Kari Plog / May 8, 2017 Image: Fulbright Scholars Alexandra Dreher ’17 (left) and Sydney Otey ’17. (Photo by Molly Ivey ’20) May 8, 2017 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 8, 2017)- Two Lutes were accepted into the prestigious Fulbright Program and will serve as English teaching assistants around the world. A third Pacific Lutheran University student was recognized as an alternate.Sydney Otey ’17
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Marissa Meyer ’04 is the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Lunar Chronicles . She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Children’s Literature at PLU and went on to receive her MFA in Publishing from Pace University. Meyer is one of…
Marissa Meyer ’04, Best-Selling Author Posted by: Zach Powers / January 4, 2016 January 4, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsMarissa Meyer ’04 is the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Lunar Chronicles. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Children’s Literature at PLU and went on to receive her MFA in Publishing from Pace University. Meyer is one of 11 notable alumni currently featured in a billboard campaign that asks “what can you do
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 12, 2016)- Jane Wong knows good poetry when she hears it. The published poet, who is a visiting assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was impressed with her students’ prose and wanted to share them off campus. “They are real…
. They’re not just students,” she said. “They’re legit — and you can already hear that.” Wong hosted the poetry reading at Northern Pacific Coffee Co., headlined by five students from her “English 327: Intermediate Poetry Writing” course. The Dec. 5 event, titled “Poetically Speaking,” featured poets Emily Khilfeh ’17, Lucas Bentley ’17, Noah Gerlach ’18, Binyaamem Novus-Khan ’18 and Kylie Ada ’19. The evening opened with Novus-Khan’s shocking poetry — complete with Christina Aguilera sound bites — and
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also has co-authored Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction and The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. Her work has received six Pushcart Prizes. She is a Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor in Chief of the Bellingham Review. Scott Nadelson. Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath, and a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. His stories and essays have appeared in
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Spring 2022 English Capstones[ Seminar in Creative Writing | Seminar in Literature ]Engl 452 : Seminar in Literature, Dr. Jenny JamesWednesday May 18, 2022 | 1:00-4:20pm | AUC 201Anna NguyenCasey McNivenBailey SummerhillAndrew WelchJames SecorAnna Nguyen1:00-1:40pm Capstone Title: “Distant Sunken Ships and the Apparition of Empire in To the Lighthouse” Casey McNiven1:40-2:20pm Capstone Title: “The Silence of the Poet & the Role of Augustus Carmichael in To the Lighthouse” Bailey Summerhill2:20
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The graduate programs at Pacific Lutheran University are designed to combine practice and theory to prepare students to take the next step in their careers.
Fine Arts in Creative Writing The Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University is a three-year, four-residency program in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. How to Apply Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy Graduates become systemically-oriented, contextually sensitive MFT professionals who address diverse needs and concerns of individuals, couples, families and communities. Information Sessions How to Apply Master of Science in Nursing Ranked as one of the top nursing
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Click the Image Below to Visit our Newsletter in Full Many thanks to Prof. Anna Trammell (Archivist & Special Collections Librarian) for providing the Clover Creek images that appear in this issue. You can learn more about PLU’s Archive and Special Collections here and follow them on Instagram. We are immensely grateful to Sami Hoskins (WMGS/Global Studies/IHON '20) for designing this year's Newsletter and this webpage. Student Video Projects from English 322: Place-Based Writing
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Keven Drews’ doctor told him he was out of options in his longtime fight for his life. So, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to earn $500,000 for a clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson Cancer
options in his longtime fight for his life. Drews has faced a 14-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer formed in the body’s plasma cells. His last hope is a clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, with the half-a-million price tag. “I got 14 years,” he said. “I’m hoping to get more.” Drews recently graduated from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, after spending years working as a
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Miller is the author of five essay collections: An Earlier Life; Who You Will Become; Listening Against the Stone; Blessing of the Animals; and Season of the Body. She also co-authored Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction and The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. Her work has received six Pushcart Prizes. She is a Professor of English at Western Washington University, and on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop. She lives in Bellingham, WA, with
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