Latest USC Dornsife News in the Category Writing Program http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/categories/7/writing-program/ Writing fiction gives Deborah Harkness license to explore where her inner historian would not dare to tread.]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 17:55:00 -0500 USC Dornsife students Eric Weintraub and Vellore Adithi take top prizes at the 2013 Undergraduate Writers' Conference at USC. In all, 25 students were honored at the annual event celebrating writers.]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:50:00 -0500 Tens of thousands of people fed their appetites for the written word during the recent annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Among USC Dornsife authors speaking at the two-day event, University Professor Kevin Starr, the John Muir of our times, shared some of his own history.]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:30:00 -0500 USC Dornsife’s Kaya Press publishes the first-ever English translation of two works by long-lost author Shoson Nagahara, who wrote about the dark underbelly of 1920s Japanese immigrant life in L.A.’s Little Tokyo.]]> Fri, 1 Mar 2013 08:40:00 -0500 Poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia teaches in USC Dornsife’s English department. His unusual path includes a post as a marketing executive for General Foods, leading the team that created Jell-O Jigglers.]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:30:00 -0500 High school students may learn and live like USC students during the summer while earning college credit. Application deadline for Summer 2013 is May 8 for domestic students and April 1 for international students.]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:00:00 -0500 The USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education offers a perspective on genocides that have occurred throughout the world. Preserving these memories helps ensure that for generations to come these stories will be a compelling voice for education and action.]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:30:00 -0500 Five USC Dornsife authors from various disciplines ponder the connection between creativity and memory.]]> Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:25:00 -0500