Sentence examples for writing programme from inspiring English sources

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Yet he won a fellowship to the Wallace Stegner writing programme at Stanford University, in California; in Palo Alto he became best friends with Ken Kesey, his neighbour and an exile from Stegner.

Instead, this long-time Glaswegian's almost-poetic restlessness has taken her into teaching (at the Universities of St Andrews and, latterly, Warwick, where she's a visiting professor to their Writing Programme) and her latest passion, stand-up comedy.

Having cut his literary teeth writing programme notes for BBC orchestral concerts, over the years he contributed a wealth of scholarly articles to a wide range of periodicals including Music and Musicians, The Musical Times, The Listener, Music and Letters, The Musical Quarterly and Tempo.

Better still, join a writing group or sign up for a creative writing programme.

"I wanted to have some contact with the writing programme," he remembers.

Writing programmes "keeps the membership happy", says Klaus von Beyme, a professor at Heidelberg University.

Andrew Cowan, director of creative writing at UEA, suggests that writing programmes are also vital to developing particular kinds of work.

Kevin Powers served in Iraq but his novel reads as if he were the veteran only of serial deployments in MFA writing programmes.

He'd begun life writing programmes on old mainframes before discovering he had an entrepreneurial streak – and that he wasn't bad at figures, strategy and running things.

The widespread expansion of writing programmes there has resulted in a generation of younger academics, trained in institutions where creative writing was a normal part of the curriculum, for whom the old antagonisms no longer pertain.