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Professor Richard Bausch

Thank you for your interest in the Chapman University Writing Workshop, however the submission period is now closed.

Aspiring fiction writers may be one step closer to their dreams as Chapman University launches a new free writing workshop taught by renowned novelist and short-story master Richard Bausch, who joined the Chapman creative writing faculty this fall. The workshop is open only to members of the community (not to students at Chapman, who already have many opportunities to take writing classes). "We don't put any limitations on applicants, either by age or by background. Who can tell where the next good writer will come from? A selected participant could be a high school student, unemployed, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a custodian or restaurant worker, a retired person, a truck driver. Frankly, the more diversity in the class, the better.  We encourage everyone to apply – so dust off that manuscript you've been working on, or write a new one and submit it." said Bausch.

Applicants should submit a manuscript of no more than 20 pages by January 25, and Bausch will personally read all submissions and select the participants for the 2013 workshop. The workshop will commence meeting with Bausch once a week on February 15, 2013, and will take place each Tuesday thereafter for 14 weeks. Selected participants will be contacted with more detailed information about meeting times and locations.

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  • Manuscripts should be sent by mail to Richard Bausch, Chapman University Creative Writing Workshop, Department of English, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866 or submitted online. Submissions may be from one to 20 pages.  All submissions must be fiction (nonfiction and other forms will not be considered). Submissions need not be complete stories, but should represent what you consider to be a good sample of your fiction writing. All forms of fiction are welcome. Manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents or as editable PDFs. All submissions must include the writer's name, mailing address, phone number and email address.  Applicants should live within driving distance of Chapman University, as the weekly classes will be conducted on the Chapman campus. The selected applicants will be contacted shortly after January 25.

  • An acknowledged master of both the novel and short-story form, Richard Bausch has seen his work published in Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, GQ, and The Southern Review, among many others, and anthologized in New Stories from the South, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Stories, The Vintage Book of the Contemporary American Short Story, The Granta Book of the American Short Story and more. 

    He is the author of 11 novels and eight collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers, Violence, The Night Season, Hello to the Cannibals, Thanksgiving Night and Peace, and the story collections The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch, Spirits, The Fireman’s Wife, Wives and Lovers and Something Is Out There. His novel The Last Good Time was made into a feature-length motion picture in 1995, directed by Bob Balaban and starring Armin Meuhler-Stahl and Maureen Stapleton. Bausch has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and since 2002 has been the sole editor of the prestigious Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. 

    Prior to joining the Chapman faculty this year, Bausch taught creative writing on the faculties of George Mason University and the University of Memphis, where he also launched highly successful versions of his free Creative Writing Workshop.

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