Robbie Clipper Sethi

I'm in India teaching Creative Writing at the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad. If you would like to see a syllabus for the course, please email me. It's a work in progress. It's the first time I'll be teaching during a "Monsoon Semester." Sounds like a title. I will be working on Dry Land Sailors and The Music of the Spheres as well as short fiction and poetry while I am there--time willing--and will be back in time for the Cape May Getaway 2010, detailed below.

Ever want to stay in a hotel in the dead of winter and write (like Stephen King’s character in The Shining)? This hotel is on the beach, on the Jersey shore, and we fill it up with poets (“Well, not exactly dead poets are you?”—waitress, Ballyhoo’s restaurant and disco, Grand Hotel, Cape May, New Jersey), writers and other artists. Nor do we write the same sentence over and over again. Hopefully. Though in poetry . . . Below is a picture of me teaching downstairs in my townhouse room in the winter of 2007. If by January of 2010 you have a short story you would like to polish in order to submit it for publication, join me in an intimate workshop (no more than 5 people) offering practical and constructive suggestions for revision. See www.wintergetaway.com for information and registration.

ENG 303 Creative Writing Poetry taught online in the summer of 2007 resulted in an anthology of student poems I compiled from students' portfolios. Please click on the link to the left to see a copy.