Elise Blackwell
Assistant Professor
Office: 205 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2037
eblackwe@gwm.sc.edu
Education
MFA, University of California, Irvine
Specialization Areas
- Creative Writing,
- Contemporary Fiction
Recent Courses
See Course Descriptions
for detailed information.
- ENGL 610: Writing the Novel
- ENGL 602: Seminar in Prose Composition
- ENGL 492: Advanced Fiction writing
- ENGL 465: Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 360: Introduction to Creative Writing
- SCHC 354: Nature Writing (Honors College)
- SCHC 354: Travel Writing (Honors College)
Current Research Project(s)
- Water Damage (a novel)
- new short fiction
Books
Grub
(The Toby Press, September 2007)
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The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
(Unbridled Books, April 2007)
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Hunger
(Little, Brown, April 2003); paperback reprint, forthcoming (Unbridled Books, spring 2008); foreign editions: UK, Spain, France, Israel, and Portugal
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Recent Short Prose (selected)
- “Closed World.” Coal City Review Fall 2007
- novel excerpt. Cultural Vistas Fall 2007
- “After Carville.” Witness November 2006
- “Juarez.” Quick Fiction October 2006
- “Seeing Water.” Seed June/July 2006
- “The People on the Bus.” Global City Review Fall 2005
- “Sixth of Seven.” Topic Spring 2005
Recent Readings/Appearances (selected)
- Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, November 2007
- KGB Bar, New York City, October 2007 (also: May 2003, March 2007)
- Faulkner Society, New Orleans, May 2007
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, April 2007
- Moveable Feast, Pawley’s Island, July 2007
- Virginia Festival for the Book, Charlottesville, April 2007
- Seed, fiction issue launch and reading, New York City, June 2006
- Global City Review reading, Brooklyn, February 2006
- several dozen bookstores in the southeast, northeast, and west coast, spring-fall 2007
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