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 The Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop is a 3-week workshop for high school students. The Workshop is sponsored by the UAB English Department in collaboration with the UAB Honors Program. The Workshop is named in honor of Dr. Ada Long, founding director of the UAB Honors Program, Professor of English, and lifelong advocate for community outreach, the value of a liberal education, and the enduring significance of literature. Download the brochure (pdf ) or follow these links for more information:
General Information • Application Procedures • Deadlines • Curriculum and Schedule • Faculty • Contact Information
Deadline extended! We are still accepting applications!
General Information
- Participants: The workshop is designed for high school students interested in creative writing for personal enrichment, as preparation for university work in creative writing, and as an introduction to creative writing as a career field. Up to 30 students—rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors—can participate. Students are accepted by application.
- Dates: June 4-22, 2012
 Location: the Spencer Honors House, UAB campus; the workshop is a non-residential daycamp.- Cost: $600 without college credit, $1026 with one hour elective college credit. Financial aid is available for 10 students with documented financial need.
- Faculty: The faculty of six instructors have extensive teaching and nationally renowned publication experience (low student-to-faculty ratio). Get more information about the faculty.
- Financial Support: Seed money was personally contributed by the members of the English Advisory Committee. Supplementary support has been generously provided by the Office of Student Affairs, the UAB Honors Program, and the School of Arts and Humanities.
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Application Procedures
- Students can apply by downloading the Application Packet or by requesting a packet from the program director.
- The application requires a 3-5 page sample of student creative writing (in any form or genre).
- Download the Application Packet
 for the student application and elective credit application.
- Students applying for financial aid must include a letter on school letterhead from an English teacher or high school counselor attesting to the student’s financial need.
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Deadlines
- April 15—Student Application Due
- May 1—Students Notified of Selection
- May 7—Student confirms enrollment (with payment of half of workshop costs)
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Curriculum and Schedule
Instructional activities include directed writing exercises, small group/workshop discussion of students' work, individual conferences with instructors, and related enrichment activities.
Students will take three week-long workshops: one in poetry, one in fiction, and one in the students' choice of other genres (e.g., playwriting, writing for children, magazine production, memoir, etc.). In each workshop, they will draft, critique, and revise complete, original works.
Program is in session 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with lunch provided.
| 9:00–10:00 |
Directed writing exercises |
| 10:15–12:00 |
Small group writing workshops |
| 12:00–12:30 |
Lunch (provided each day) |
| 12:30–1:30 |
Free writing time and individual conferences with instructors |
| 1:30–3:30 |
Enrichment activities |
Enrichment activities will include
- field trips and programs at such sites as the Civil Rights Institute, the Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and Sloss Furnace;
- readings and presentations by the workshop faculty, UAB student writers, and visiting authors and performers;
- exploration of publication opportunities in Sanctuary, the journal of the UAB Honors Program, an anthology of work exclusively by program students, and other publications; and
- opportunity to read publicly from their work in program's closing sessions.
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Faculty
James Braziel is the author of two novels, Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam 2008) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam 2009). His work has appeared in journals and newspapers, including the New York Times and Hayden's Ferry Review. He teaches and co-directs the creative writing program at UAB.
Daryl Brown is a graduate of UAB. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies such as New Stories from the South: The Year's Best. His novel manuscript was a finalist for the 2002 Bakeless Literary Prize. He has also published nonfiction in Creative Nonfiction, UTNE Reader, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2007.
Ashley M. Jones is a graduate of UAB. She has been published in Aura Literary Arts Review and Sanctuary Literary Magazine and was a 2011 AWP Intro Journals Project nominee. She will begin an MFA program in poetry in fall of 2012.
Rusty Rushton has published poetry in more than 30 literary journals from the Paris Review in New York to the Berkeley Poetry Review in California. At UAB he is Associate Director of the University Honors Program, where he teaches courses in literature and interdisciplinary humanities.
Adam Vines teaches in the English Department at UAB and edits Birmingham Poetry Review. His first collection of poetry, The Coal Life, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2012. During the summers, he is on staff at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Brandy Yates is a graduate of the UAB Honors Program. Her short fiction has been published in PoemMemoirStory, The Mayo Review, Aura, and Sanctuary and is forthcoming in Gertrude Journal. Two of her fictional chapbooks were recently recognized in press competitions, "Everyday Magic" by Gertrude Press and "The Choking Vine" by RopeWalk Press.
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Contact Information
For more information:
James Braziel, Director
Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop
Department of English
Humanities Building 205
900 13th Street South
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294
205/934-8573
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