ESCRITURA Y CIUDAD / WRITING AND THE CITY CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR IN SPANISH - JANUARY 9-20, 2017 SPONSORED BY THE MASTERS IN CREATIVE WRITING AT UNTREF AND THE DIVISION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES AT THE CENTER FOR WORKER EDUCATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
and symbolic meaning.” The Poetry classes were taught by María
rom January 9-20, 2017, our Division hosted the First Creative
and recipient of the Editorial Planeta Prize, among others. More than
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Writing Seminar in Spanish. In this intensive seminar the participants explored the fundamentals of creative writing and
actively traveled around New York City. The centerpiece of the seminar
Negroni, who also directs the Master’s Program in Creative Writing at UNTREF in Argentina. The fiction seminar was guided by Guillermo Martinez, a professor at UNTREF’s creative writing graduate program twenty participants (from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru) came to NYC to participate in this innovative academic and creative experience.
revolved around the City of New York as “a place of loss, discovery,
L-R, Top to bottom: María Negroni, Delfina Tropeano, Juan Carlos Mercado • María Negroni, Karen Luy de Aliaga, Guillermo Martínez • María Negroni, Katia Jasso, Guillermo Martínez • María Negroni, Lorena Croceri, Guillermo Martínez • María Negroni, Marcela Burcaizea, Guillermo Martínez • María Negroni, María Leguizamón, Guillermo Martínez • María Negroni, Fernando Maturana, Guillermo Martínez • María Negroni, Ana Abbate, Guillermo Martínez
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