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Rilla Askew is the author of The Mercy Seat,
a novel, and Strange Business, a book of stories.
A native of Oklahoma, Askew moved to New York in 1980, and now divides
her time between southeastern Oklahoma and upstate New York. She
received her MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. Her
short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary magazines and
has been selected for Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry
Awards. She received the Oklahoma Book Award for Strange Business
in 1993.
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Shaped by Place: On Writers
and Writing
February 11-15, 1998
at the University of Oklahoma
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Beginning with a taste of Faulkner, the iconic American voice
shaped by place, and moving through works by several Oklahoma
authors, participants in this seminar examined athe interplay
between the writer's life as it is shaped by the forces of its
native landscape and culture, and the creation of the work itself.
In particular, there was a focus on OKlahoma culture as a source
for literature, and on the creative work of the seminar participants
themselves. Students did not need to have prior experience as
writers (although the seminar was designed to encourage and
nuture the developing writer), but a mad love of reading was
a must.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
A reading packet included excerpts by Faulkner, Edgerton,
Milburn, Debo, Taylor, Askew, Barnes, Harjo, Hobson, Marsh,
and Ellison.
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