Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:54:09 -0400
From: Judy Hogan
Subject: Judy Hogan Teaches Journal Course–CCCC-Sept 8-Oct 13
JUDY HOGAN TO TEACH JOURNAL COURSE AT CCCC
Judy Hogan, founding editor of Carolina Wren Press (1976-91) and 2008 winner of the Indy Arts Award, will teach “Journal Writing: Self-Healing Seed Bed” beginning September 8 at CCCC in Pittsboro. The course will run consecutive Mondays through October 13, 7-9 P.M. Reading published journals from May Sarton, Anais Nin, Thoreau, and Virginia Woolf will stimulate various strategies for enhancing students’ writing. There are no prerequisites. To enroll, call Continuing Education, Pittsboro Campus: (919) 542-6495, ext. 223.
Jaki Shelton Green, winner of the 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature, and published by Carolina Wren, had this to say about Hogan: “Judy instills in her pupils that the effort to write… is an intelligent act…. She teaches us through her living… Judy helped me to understand what it means to imagine a world so believable in language, of being compelled to use my most intimate secrets, musings, visions…. [Judy Hogan’s] bidding has always been: ‘Tell the true stories.’”
Dawn Shamp, 2008 author of On Account of Conspicuous Woman, her debut novel receiving acclaim locally and nationally, said this: “Judy Hogan is a quiet, enigmatic force in a literary world increasingly defined by noisy salutes and forgotten legacies. But the fortunate among us who are able to sit at her knee or sweat at her side have a rare opportunity to learn holistic lessons–not only about classic literature and its importance to our daily slogging over keyboards and reference texts, but also about life, commitment to ideals, and independent thought.”
Hogan founded and taught through the 1980s the “Roadmap to Great Literature for New Writers” Program in Durham and Burlington public libraries, with state and national Humanities grants. After writing, teaching is her vocation. She has five volumes of poetry and two of non-fiction from small presses. She lives in Moncure, in Chatham County, where she farms and writes.
For more information: CCCC Continuing Education, Pittsboro: (919) 542-6495 X 223
Judy Hogan: (919) 545-9932
Web: http://judyhogan.home.mindspring.com
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