Faculty, Course and Workshop Offerings

ENG 221 Creative Writing I: Immerse yourself. Learn what writers know. Learn the craft of language. Learn how to discover the meaning behind your life. Students will learn the building blocks to poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Details through Chris Ransick, chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu or Kathryn Winograd kathryn.winograd@arapahoe.edu. Summer offering by Monica Fuglei, monica.fuglei@arapahoe.edu

ENG 222 Creative Writing II: Go Deeper. This workshop continues the development of written expression within the student's chosen genre: fiction, poetry, screenwriting and/or literary nonfiction. Details through Chris Ransick, chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu. **available to non ACC students through ACC Community Ed.

ENG 227 Poetry Writing Sing to the Muse. Learn the language of the lyric, narrative, and metaphoric. Explore and experiment with classic and modern forms of poetry. Discover significant past and present poets, and literary movements in poetry. Workshop format with peer critiques and presentations. Details through Kathryn Winograd kathryn.winograd@arapahoe.edu. **available to non ACC students through ACC Community Ed.

ENG 226 Fiction Writing Transform Worlds Learn the beauty of transformational fictional prose. Learn the techniques for creating short fiction-its landscapes, characters, and events. Write your own short fiction in this workshop experience. Details through Chris Ransick, chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu **available to non ACC students through ACC Community Ed.

ENG 230 Creative Nonfiction: Write your life. The Braided essay. The Hermit Crab. Personal Reportage. Creative Non fiction is the tangled intersection of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Explore the transforming moments of your life and learn how to discover and share epiphany with an audience. We'll also explore a variety of publishing venues in this workshop-style class. Details through Kathryn Winograd kathryn.winograd@arapahoe.edu **available to non ACC students through ACC Community Ed.

ENG 231 Literary Magazine: Be a Magazine Editor. Create ACCs award-winning literary and art magazine, The Progenitor. Learn the process of selection, design, layout and production. Details through Chris Ransick, chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu

ENG 275: Publishing Your Writing: Get Published. Target audiences and submit weekly for publication. Write a query letter, bio and book proposal. Learn the ins and outs of contests and publishing online. Meet published authors and publishers. Many successes to date. Ask for details by contacting josie.mills@arapahoe.edu or call Dr. Mills at 303.797.5813. GET PUBLISHED: "I have done more in the weeks I have been in this class with getting published than I have in 15 years of writing." **available to non ACC students through ACC Community Ed.

FVT 250: Scriptwriting for Film and Video: Make Movies. Learn the craft of scene construction, genre conventions, three act structure, characterization and idea generation. Produce your own 30 minute script! Details through Chris Ransick, chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu. **available to non ACC students through ACC Community Ed.

Writers Studio Writing Faculty

Denver Poet Laureate, Chris Ransick, has garnered many awards and accolades for his poetry and fiction. A Colorado Book Award winner, Chris is the author of Lost Songs and Last Chances, A Return to Emptiness, and Never Summer, Poems from Thin Air. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Pilgrimage, Copper Nickel 3, The Eleventh Muse, Fugue, and The Paterson Literary Review. Besides teaching full time at Arapahoe Community College, Chris teaches a Poetry Master class for the Lighthouse Writers Inc, and conducts workshops and readings locally and nationally. He holds a Masters of English and Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis

Kathryn Winograd is the author of Air Into Breath, a collection of poetry which won the Colorado Book Award in poetry. Her poetry, essays, and children's writing have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, Mountain Living, Natural Homes, and Cricket Magazine. She is the author of three other books on writing published by McGraw Hill and Scholastic, Inc. Kathryn Winograd is a full time faculty member of ACC, coordinator of the Writers Studio, and a member of the poetry faculty for Ashland University's low residency MFA program in Poetry and Creative Non Fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop.

Josie Mills holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver. She has published poems in national and international journals such as the Talking River Review and Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation of Stanford University. She has been teaching writing for 20 years and has devoted herself to the process of helping her students get published.

Monica Fuglei received her MA from the University of Nebraska. Mentored by poets such as Don Welch and Marjorie Saiser, Monica was a founding member of the Omaha Poetry Slam. Her work has appeared in a wide range of arenas, from Writer's Journal to Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace: Writing by Women of the Great Plains. Her most recent publication appeared in Slamma Lamma Ding Dong, winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Best Anthology.