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Guidelines ENC1101 ENC1102 Writing Contest Winning Essays

Degrees Creative Writing Track Literature Track Technical Writing Track Minors Creative Writing Linguistics Literature Technical Writing and Editing Writing Honors Honors In The Major

Degrees Texts and Technology, Ph.D. Creative Writing, M.F.A. Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, M.A. Technical Communication, M.A. Certificates Professional Writing

Research Faulkner Journal Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing Literary Florida Review Cypress Dome

Professional Literary Arts Parnership Student Cypress Dome Society Sigma Tau Delta Future Technical Communicators Engineers Without Borders

Student Faculty

Events Highlights

Darlin' Neal

Assistant Professor

mdneal@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: M 11-2:20; W 12-2:20
Campus Location: CNH304E

Darlin' Neal is a native Mississippian who spent her childhood traveling New Mexico. In the last two years, her fiction and nonfiction have been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in Per Contra, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol and dozens of other magazines. Her nonfiction piece, "The House in Simi Valley," which first appeared in storySouth, has been selected for the forthcoming anthology, Online Writing: The Best of The First Ten Years.

Education

Ph.D. in Creative Writing/20th Century British and American Literature from University of Southern Mississippi
M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Fiction from University of Arizona
M.A. in English/Creative Writing from New Mexico State University

Research Interests

Literary Fiction
Literary Nonfiction
Memoir
Poetry and Flash Fiction
Native American Literature
Writing of the Southwest
Southern Writers
Eudora Welty

Awards

Finalist, 2008 New Rivers Press MVP Award for short story collection, Rattlesnakes and the Moon

Finalist, 2007 BkMk Press GS Sharat Chandra Prize for short story collection, Rattlesnakes and the MoonLiterary Arts Fellowship, Mississippi Arts Commission

Henfield Foundation Transatlantic Review Award

Joan Johnson Award for Fiction, University of Southern Mississippi

New Mexico State University's Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
21370	CRW3120	FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP	Rdce Time	Tu 12:00PM - 1:15PM
CRW 3120 CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Fiction Writing Workshop: PR: English major or minor, junior standing, and grade of C (2.0) or better required in CRW 3013, or C.I. An intermediate level fiction writing workshop for English majors; group analysis and criticism; close reading of contemporary fiction and fiction theory.
21371	CRW3120	FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP	Rdce Time	Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM
CRW 3120 CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Fiction Writing Workshop: PR: English major or minor, junior standing, and grade of C (2.0) or better required in CRW 3013, or C.I. An intermediate level fiction writing workshop for English majors; group analysis and criticism; close reading of contemporary fiction and fiction theory.
21372	CRW3211	CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING	Face2Face	Tu,Th 1:30PM - 2:45PM
CRW 3211 CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Creative Nonfiction Writing: PR: English major or minor, junior standing, and grade of C (2.0) or better required in CRW 3013, or C.I. Writers present original nonfiction writing for class response and individual conferences. Close reading of key works of creative nonfiction with discussion of definitions of the genre.