Loyola Writing Institute

The Loyola Writing Institute is pleased to offer summer writing courses for the community!

Platitudes of Truth - Writing Creative Nonfiction taught by Peyton Burgess
Beginning June 12 for eight weeks.

This course will focus on research and voice to develop worlds that are true without being obliged by the factual. Students will read nonfiction by Zadie Smith, Nancy Lemann, David Foster Wallace, Walker Percy, and others to study craft while work-shopping their own writing. The course will be capped at 15 students.

Summer Fiction Writing taught by Stephen Rea
Beginning the week of June 17, length to be determined.

This class is a shortened version of Stephen's popular Writing Well-Crafted Fiction course that the Walker Percy Center has been offering for years. Running for just June and July, this brief and informal course will examine students' work, focusing on ways to improve your novel, short stories or family histories. For the greatest benefit we recommend that you take the full eight-week full introductory class that will start again in September - but if you can only sign-up in the summer, or you have limited free time, then this will give you a good foundation to sharpen your story-telling skills. Cost of the course will depend on how many weeks the course lasts (the students will decide).

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Where: Loyola campus, Bobet Hall, Rm 341.

When: 7 to 9 p.m.
Cost: Platitudes of Truth is an eight week course and will cost $250. Summer Fiction Writing is a 5 - 6 week course and will cost between $125 and $190.
Open to: Adults (21+) and is not for Loyola credit. Participants must not be currently enrolled as full-time students.
Sign up: To reserve your spot, please email lwi@loyno.edu. Please indicate which course you are signing up for.

For further information, e-mail lwi@loyno.edu or call 504-931-9902.

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The following is a list of past courses:

Spring 2013

Writing Well-Crafted Fiction by Stephen Rea
Advanced Fiction Writing by Stephen Rea
Platitutes of Truth: Writing Creative Nonfiction by Peyton Burgess
Writing Your Life: Memoirs and Family Histories by Patricia Brady

Fall 2012

Writing Well-Crafted Fiction by Stephen Rea
Advanced Fiction Writing by Stephen Rea

Spring 2012

Writing Well-Crafted Fiction by Stephen Rea
Advanced Fiction Writing by Stephen Rea

Summer 2012

Intermediate Fiction Writing by Stephen Rea

Fall 2011

Writing Well-Crafted Fiction by Stephen Rea

Fall 2010

Irritations and Jubilations: The Art of the Personal Essay by Anne Gisleson

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Teacher biographies

Stephen Rea is originally from Northern Ireland but has lived in New Orleans since 2004. A former national newspaper journalist in the UK, he is the author of the book Finn McCool's Football Club, a tale set against Hurricane Katrina centered around the Irish pub in Mid-City.

Anne Gisleson has been published in The Mississippi Review, the New Orleans Review,Constance, Muse Media, Gambit Weekly and the Great American Poetry Show Anthology. She has participated in residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the New York Institute for Writers and has also received a Louisiana Division of the Arts grant and a Surdna Arts Teacher's Fellowship.

Peyton Burgess was born in Richmond, Virginia and received an MFA in fiction from New York University, where he taught undergraduate creative writing and worked as fiction editor for Washington Square Review. He is currently the fiction editor for New Orleans Review and his writing has appeared in Salon, Exquisite Corpse, The Faster Times, La Fovea, and Otis Nebula.

Patricia Brady came to New Orleans in 1961 and never went away. A former director of publications at the Historic New Orleans Collection, she has published several biographies, including those of Martha Washington and Julien Hudson.