{"id":2796,"date":"2021-06-23T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2021-06-23T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:40:36","slug":"new-creative-writing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/2021\/06\/23\/new-creative-writing-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Creative Writing Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: garamond, times new roman, serif;font-size: large\"><strong>The Creative Writing Concentration and Minor <\/strong>are both designed to expose students to the craft of writing creatively while guiding them in producing\u00a0narratives of their own in workshops and courses led by published authors and faculty members.\u00a0 \u00a0The Creative Writing program at Jackson State University possesses a deliberate focus on social justice and community as guiding themes for course content and student work.\u00a0 Our students are encouraged to embrace the rich heritage of writing set forth by icons like Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, Kiese\u00a0Laymon, Angie Thomas, Natasha Trethewey, Jesmyn Ward, and more!\u00a0 The Creative Writing Concentration is designed for English majors.\u00a0 The Creative Writing Minor is open to students from any department across our campus.\u00a0 Both programs require 21 hours of study in specified creative writing courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: garamond, times new roman, serif;font-size: large\">For more information contact: Dr. Ebony Lumumba (<a href=\"mailto:ebony.o.lumumba@jsums.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ebony.o.lumumba@jsums.edu<\/a> or Dr. RaShell Smith-Spears (<a href=\"mailto:rashell.spears@jsums.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rashell.spears@jsums.edu<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Cc7fICJ_pw2i9QPGOaNnYKWMkXRnE1EE\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Cc7fICJ_pw2i9QPGOaNnYKWMkXRnE1EE\/view?usp%3Dsharing&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624408939359000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGdJSwHhbDV6BdBaYP1UKYzb8liog\"><span style=\"font-family: garamond, times new roman, serif;font-size: large\">Creative Writing curriculum sheet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: garamond, times new roman, serif;font-size: large\"><b>Sign up today and become the next great author from JSU!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Writing Concentration and Minor are both designed to expose students to the craft of writing creatively while guiding them in producing\u00a0narratives of their own in workshops and courses led by published authors and faculty members.\u00a0 \u00a0The Creative Writing program at Jackson State University possesses a deliberate focus on social justice and community as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}