Bell has taught in various creative writing programs, including the Iowa Writers ' Workshop, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.

Following Rector's death in August 2007, Sven Birkerts took over as acting director of the Writing Seminars.

Written for the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University, which Barth himself later ran, The Shirt of Nessus is not a dissertation, but rather a short novel or novella.

The only known copies not held by the author were kept in the Johns Hopkins school library and the Writing Seminars Department thesis copies, but recent inquiries by devoted Barth fans have shown that the copy held by the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins disappeared in the mid-1960s, while the other seems to have mysteriously " walked out " of the school's special collections division of the library.

Birkerts is the Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the editor of AGNI, the literary journal.

He has also participated in several workshops including the Summer Literary Seminars, poetry work shop, in St. Petersburg, Russia ( 2007 ), and the Writing with Style, short fiction workshop, in Banff, Alberta ( 2007 ).

John Thomas Irwin ( b. April 24, 1940 in Houston, Texas ) is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Professor in The Writing Seminars and the English department at Johns Hopkins University.

He began his teaching career as an assistant professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University in 1970, but left Johns Hopkins in 1974 to become the editor of The Georgia Review at the University of Georgia Dr. Irwin returned to Johns Hopkins to become professor and chair of The Writing Seminars department.

Ali taught at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts Amherst, at the MFA Writing Seminars at Bennington College as well as at creative writing programs at University of Utah, Baruch College, Warren Wilson College, Hamilton College and New York University.

from Bennington College, where she now teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars program.

He holds a MA from the Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University.

Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State University, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast.

Currently he is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars.

Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.

Writing in the 4th century, the Pilgrim of Bordeaux reported that the sepulchers of David, Ezekiel, Asaph, Job, Jesse, and Solomon were located near Bethlehem.

Writing in 1956 John Stewart suggested that brochs were forts put up by a military society to scan and protect the countryside and seas.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

Each Element also has a specialty for which a character can get a 1-point bonus ; e. g., a 5-Air hero with an Air specialty of " Writing " could write as though their Air score were 6.

Both authors were pioneers in feminist criticism of science fiction during the 1960s and 70s through essays collected in The Language of the Night ( Le Guin, 1979 ) and How To Suppress Women's Writing ( Russ, 1983 ).

Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.

Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.

Writing duties were assisted by Ulf Lindstrom and Johan Ekhé, who also helped to produce the album, and they stayed on board with Robyn until the completion of her album Don't Stop the Music in 2003.

Writing for the majority, Justice Rehnquist rejected the appellants argument for the common law's protection of property against trespass, writing that such an interpretation would " represent a return to the era of Lochner v. New York,, when common-law rights were also found immune from revision ... would freeze the common law as it has been constructed by courts, perhaps at its 19th-century state of development.

Writing for the New York Times shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the Detroit Free Press wrote that " the people of Washington, London, Paris and all points between might have been dancing in the streets " if it were not for " doubts and suspicions " about Soviet intentions.

Writing in Rome and Milan in addition to Naples, Donizetti achieved some popular success in the 1820s ( although critics were often unimpressed ), but was not well known internationally until 1830, when his Anna Bolena was premiered in Milan.

Writing home on 16 February 1943, Powell stated: " I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were ... our terrible enemy, America ...." Powell's conviction of the anti-British attitude of the Americans continued during the war.

Writing in 1933, Milo Milton Quaife identified a French immigrant to Canada, Pierre Dandonneau, who acquired the title " Sieur de Sable " and whose descendants were known by both the names Dandonneau and Du Sable.

Writing in Film Quarterly, Gary Hentzi praised the actors, but said that characters such as Carolyn and Col. Fitts were stereotypes.

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

Individual achievement awards were awarded to Pam Coats for producing ; Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft for Directing ; Rita Hsiao, Christopher Sanders, Phillip LaZebnick, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer in Writing ; Chris Sanders for Storyboarding ; Hans Bacher for Production Design ; David Tidgwell for Effects Animation ; Ming-Na for Voice Acting Mulan ; Matthew Wilder, David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith for music and Ruben A. Aquino for Character Animation.

Writing synthesizable RTL files required practice and discipline on the part of the designer ; compared to a traditional schematic layout, synthesized RTL netlists were almost always larger in area and slower in performance.

Writing in AD 79, Pliny the Elder said that the Germanic tribes were members of separate groups of people, suggesting a distinction among them.

" Writing from London, he informed Cornwallis that it " created the greatest alarm in this country, and there are many persons who were pacifically disposed and who since this event are desirous of renewing the war.

Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

Shelton's chief rivals were Theophilus Metcalfe's Stenography or Short Writing ( 1633 ) which was in its " 55th edition " by 1721, and Jeremiah Rich's system of 1654, which was published under various titles including The penns dexterity compleated ( 1669 ).

( Writer Parke Levy told Jordan R. Young, in The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age, that he was stunned to learn that Bud and Lou were afraid to perform new material.

Writing c. 1000, the Ramsey monk Byrhtferth relates that under the auspices of Oswald, bishop of Worcester, seven monasteries were founded in his diocese, notably including Pershore.

Writing to Liszt, he said that the people there were musically unsophisticated, but he saw this as an opportunity " for an impact I could never have achieved in Prague.

Writing a little later, Tertullian makes the same main point but adds expressly that recently founded churches ( such as his own in Carthage ) could be considered apostolic if they had " derived the tradition of faith and the seeds of doctrine " from an apostolic church.

The latter three founded Bordighera Press and edited From the Margin, An Anthology of Italian American Writing, Purdue University Press.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing ( see Intercourse magazine ).

The postgraduate Master of Arts in Creative Writing, founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970, is regarded as the most respected in the United Kingdom, and admission to the programme is competitive.

The course has gone on to produce a number of distinguished authors, including Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Enright, Tash Aw, Andrew Miller, Owen Sheers, Tracy Chevalier, Trezza Azzopardi, Panos Karnezis, and Suzannah Dunn. The German émigré novelist W. G. Sebald also taught in the School of Literature and Creative Writing, and founded the British Centre for Literary Translation, until his death in a car accident in 2001.

He founded the Creative Writing program at Princeton, and mentored Richard Blackmur, John Berryman, and others.

In 1974, with Trungpa, Ginsberg, and others, Waldman founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado ( now Naropa University ), where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's famous Summer Writing Program.

CutBank, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing Program, is a literary magazine.

New MFA programs were founded in Writing and Consciousness ; and in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Studies.

* Writing Rights Blog The blog of the Centre for Law and Social Justice, founded by Zackie Achmat and Gavin Silber in 2009.

The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970.

Writing in November 2007, Jen Graves of Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger considers the Lawrimore Project ( founded 2005 ) " the closest thing contemporary art in Seattle has to a center ".

Born in Hollywood, California, Young was raised in Los Angeles and San Diego and won fellowships to study writing at the University of San Diego ; the University of California, Davis, where he studied with Beat Generation author Gary Snyder ; and the University of Houston, in the doctoral Creative Writing Program founded by postmodern satirist Donald Barthelme.

Turco taught at Fenn College in Cleveland ( now Cleveland State University ) where he founded the Cleveland Poetry Center and at the State University of New York at Oswego where he was founding Director of the Program in Writing Arts.

These awards are given annually " to honor of Samuel Talmadge Ragan, North Carolina's first Secretary of Cultural Resources " Barton College founded the Sam and Marjorie Ragan Writing Center in their honor.

The Humber School of Comedy ( Comedy: Writing and Performance program ) was founded in 1999, at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

It was founded by former German war-time pilot and sex pioneer Beate Uhse-Rotermund in 1946 and started out as a distibutor of pamphlets on family planning called Schrift X ( roughly: Writing X or Paper X ) which was a major success.

In 2006 Cohen founded The Writing Workshop, which runs creative writing programs for children in New South Wales, and via the internet.

The International Women's Writing Guild, founded in 1976 by Hannelore Hahn, is a non-profit network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing.

Avenue House was the home of Henry ' Inky ' Stephens ( 1841-1918 ), son of Henry Stephens ( 1796-1864 ) who founded the Stephens ' Ink Company, the first producers of " Blue-Black Writing Fluid " in 1832.