“Writing Badly to Write Well: How to ‘Fail Better’ Every Time”

Visiting Canadian writer and professor Douglas Burnet Smith, from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, will offer a creative-writing workshop in three sessions.

The workshop is titled “Writing Badly to Write Well: How to ‘Fail Better’ Every Time.” Professor Smith will lead students through a series of friendly discussions of their poetry and/or fiction, focusing on the fundamentals of clear, imaginative, challenging writing, while also using excerpts from work widely recognized as among the best of modern and postmodern writing in English.

The seminar is addressed to undergraduate and postgraduate students and its details are as follows:

When and Where?

• 1st meeting: Thursday 12 May, 14.00-16.00 (Old Philosophy Building, Room 112)
• 2nd meeting: Tuesday 17 May, 19.00-21.00 (New Wing, Room 01 )
• 3rd meeting: Thursday 19 May, 14.00-16.00 (Old Philosophy Building, Room 112)

Language: English

Registration is now closed! Thank you!

Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance only if they participate in all 3 sessions. Please note that if you do register but cannot attend the first meeting for some unforeseen reason, you are kindly asked to contact Dr. Patrona (tpatrona@enl.auth.gr) as there will be a waiting list.

Bio

Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of 17 books of poetry in English. The recipient of numerous awards for his work, Smith teaches Modern Poetry and Creative Writing at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is Writer in Residence this semester at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he will lead Creative Writing workshops, deliver lectures, and present a reading of his work for the “Problematics of Culture and Theory” Seminar Series.