JAN 24: A MASTER CLASS WITH THE NEW YORKER'S SARAH STILLMAN
Department: Literary Journalism
Date and Time: January 24, 2019 | 3:30 PM-5:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Instructional Building 110
Event Details
Join the Literary Journalism Program for a master class with MacArthur Fellow and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman, Stillman, the author of award-winning narratives on war, immigration, and family separation, will share insights into her work with members of the audience. Attendees are encouraged to come with questions and participate in the discussion.
Optional readings for this event include:
When Deportation Is a Death Sentence
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
The Throwaways
The Invisible Army
Co-sponsored by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative, and the Department of English.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2019
3:30 PM-4:50 PM
HUMANITIES INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING 110
(Building 610 lon the campus map here)
For more information or for disability accommodations, contact piersonp@uci.edu.
ABOUT SARAH STILLMAN:
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. She also directs the Global Migration Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and teaches literary nonfiction writing at Yale. Her recent work has received the National Magazine Award, the Michael Kelly Award for the “fearless pursuit and expression of truth,” the Overseas Press Club’s Joe & Laurie Dine Award for International Human Rights Reporting, the George Polk Award, and the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism.
Her coverage of America’s wars overseas and the challenges facing soldiers at home has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic.com, Slate.com, and The Atlantic.com. She taught a seminar on the Iraq war at Yale, and also ran a creative writing workshop for four years at Cheshire Correctional Institute, a maximum-security men’s prison in Connecticut. She is currently reporting on immigration and criminal justice issues. She is a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.
ABOUT THE LITERARY JOURNALISM PROGRAM:
Now celebrating its fifteenth year, the Literary Journalism Program was created to meet the needs of a growing number of students who wish to read, study and write nonfiction prose that has transcended the limits of daily journalism. The program provides majors with a solid foundation in nonfiction writing and an equally solid background in areas such as literary history, which together will help make them more informed writers. UCI's program builds on existing departmental strengths: its nationally ranked programs in creative writing, literature and literary theory. Literary Journalism majors take three intensive writing seminars, and are expected to develop a portfolio of work by graduation which they can present as evidence of their skill for purposes of employment or future education. The major and minor in Literary Journalism are excellent preparation for students planning to enter graduate programs in journalism, as well as for those interested in the many careers requiring sophisticated writing skills.
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