#04-193
June 14, 2004

GSW students, professor join in writing workshop

Working at Writing--(left to right) Derrick Shields, Gabriele Stauf, Ph.D., and Sandra Powell will represent Georgia Southwestern State University at a creative nonfiction workshop with "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" author Janisse Ray July 9-11 in Clayton, Ga. Shields, a freshman, had a short story he wrote chosen to be presented at the event. Powell, a junior, and Shields both worked on the most recent installment of GSW's literary magazine, the Clay & Pine, and will attend the workshop on scholarships. Stauf, an associate professor in English & Foreign Languages, was selected to complete a creative writing residency at the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts, where the workshop will be held.

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