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Mark Axelrod
Fowles Center Director
MARK
AXELROD is a Professor of Comparative Literature and former Chair of
English at Chapman University. Prior to teaching at Chapman, he taught
at the University of East Anglia, (Norwich, UK) and the University of
Edinburgh (Scotland). A graduate of both Indiana University (B.A.,
M.A.) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.), he is also the Director
of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, for which he has
received 4 National Endowment for the Arts Grants. He is a two-time
recipient of a United Kingdom Leverhulme Fellowship for Creative
Writing, a three-time recipient of the Alliance Française National
Writing Award, has published four novels, and is completing a tetrology
of short fictions, the first of which received excellent reviews in the
New York Times, the Georgia Review and Publisher’s Weekly, among others.
He has been published in numerous literary journals and was a contributor to the former New York avant-garde magazine, Splash. Among the awards he has won for his fiction are: the Tim McGinnis Award; Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Fiction Writing; the Maxwell Perkins Award for Fiction Writing; a Bush Foundation Fellowship for Fiction Writing; and an Award for Experimental Writing. He has also won an award from Western Illinois University for his play. A member of CILECT and other film organizations, he is a practicing screenwriter and has been awarded for his work by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Writers Guild of America, East, the Screenwriters Forum and the Sundance Institute. He has written over twenty screenplays and teleplays and won awards from the Scottish Association of Filmmakers, the London International Film & Video Festival, and the Festival Internacional de Video do Algarve, Portugal.
He has taught or conducted screenwriting seminars and workshops throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United Kingdom as well as the United States. For four years, he has been a regular visiting adjunct professor of screenwriting at the Hamburg Media School, Hamburg, Germany. In 2002 he was honored as a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing-Screenwriting at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA and was a featured speaker at the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series at San Diego State University in 2003.
Published
works include the novels Capital Castles, Cloud Castles, Cardboard
Castles, and Bombay California; he has completed a Pan-Euro-American
trilogy titled, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash, excerpts of
which have been anthologized in The Reading Room/4 published by Great
Marsh Press. He has written other short fiction as well, including
Dante’s Foil & Other Sporting Tales and The Apotheosis of Aaron. He
has written a play, Ti Amo Lucia Olivetti, and recently completed a
trilogy of new one-act plays titled Taxing Tales; he has also been
authorized to adapt John Fowles novel, Mantissa, into a stage play. His
critical books include, The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac,
Beckett and Cortázar; and The Poetics of Novels. Other film books
include: Aspects of the Screenplay; Character & Conflict:
Cornerstones of Screenwriting; I Read It at the Movies: Screen
Adaptation, and The Scene and How to Write It. He is currently at on a
tetrology of short fictions (of which two works have been published) and
a book of memoirs titled, Posthumous Papers of a Living Writer, which
includes essays from Beckett to Garrison Keillor, Letterman to August
Wilson.He has been published in numerous literary journals and was a contributor to the former New York avant-garde magazine, Splash. Among the awards he has won for his fiction are: the Tim McGinnis Award; Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Fiction Writing; the Maxwell Perkins Award for Fiction Writing; a Bush Foundation Fellowship for Fiction Writing; and an Award for Experimental Writing. He has also won an award from Western Illinois University for his play. A member of CILECT and other film organizations, he is a practicing screenwriter and has been awarded for his work by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Writers Guild of America, East, the Screenwriters Forum and the Sundance Institute. He has written over twenty screenplays and teleplays and won awards from the Scottish Association of Filmmakers, the London International Film & Video Festival, and the Festival Internacional de Video do Algarve, Portugal.
He has taught or conducted screenwriting seminars and workshops throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United Kingdom as well as the United States. For four years, he has been a regular visiting adjunct professor of screenwriting at the Hamburg Media School, Hamburg, Germany. In 2002 he was honored as a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing-Screenwriting at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA and was a featured speaker at the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series at San Diego State University in 2003.
+-Assistant for the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing
Fowles Center Assistant
Nadia Karim received her B.A. in
English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is pursuing an M.A. in English Literature at Chapman
University. She is the coordinator for the John Fowles Center for Young
Creative Writers program, which provides creative writing workshops for the
students of Orange High School; the program teaches students fundamental
techniques of fiction and poetry writing. Nadia is also a freelance editor and
copywriter. Her drive for excellence has earned her the Paul Frizler Award, and
she is a member of both Gamma Beta Phi and Sigma Tau Delta. She is currently a
member of Chapman University’s Graduate Student Council and hopes to pursue a
Ph.D. in the future.
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