Writers On Campus
 

Director of Creative Writing, Professor Olmstead	Students also learn from a well-published faculty —and from each other.   For many student writers the most important encouragement comes from other writers right on the Ohio Wesleyan campus. These include an active faculty, like the established novelist and non-fiction writer Robert Olmstead, published poet David Caplan, professionally produced playwright Bonnie Milne Gardner, and novelist and essayist Lynette Carpenter, an established author with two different series of mystery novels to her credit.  Student writers can learn from practitioners in many areas, including science writing, playwriting, and screen writing, as well as fiction, poetry and non-fiction.  Also valuable can be working with fellow students on writing projects like the campus literary magazine, The OWL, the journal of women’s writing, Voices, or simply the daily work of peer editing and serious discussion of student writing in classes like our Advanced Writing seminars in either fiction or non-fiction. Particularly attractive is the OWL apprenticeship program enabling students to earn academic credit while learning to edit and publish a literary magazine. Editors must solicit, judge and edit manuscripts, choose artwork, and work through layout and design of their publication on the computer.  Editors also organize readings at Ohio Wesleyan's Coffee House, where both students and faculty read from their work. OWL editors take a bow after an evening of readings
Novelist, Professor Carpenter
Poet, Professor Caplan
Playwright, Professor Bonnie Milne Gardner

 
 
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