UL-Lafayette Creative Writing
Chapbook and Desktopping Studio
In fall of 2000 we applied for and received a Student Technology Equipment Grant to develop facilities for producing desktopped publications. We had in mind flyers, brochures, broadsides, chapbooks, and web-based publications, especially. We also planned to reorganize our present publications (The Chapbook for the Deep South Writers Conference and The Southwestern Review) in a variety of ways that would create many possibilities for both graduate students and undergraduates to take advantage of our excellent technical equipment. The capstone of our plan is a new high-end literary journal edited and staffed by faculty and graduate students in creative writing. We hope to be able to produce a pilot issue within three years.
We installed the computers, scanners, printers, and furnishings in the fall, and began in spring of 2001 to experiment with the new hardware and software. The graduate student and undergraduate editors of The Southwestern Review produced a great issue around a metaphor of mirrors, using PageMaker and Corel Photo-Paint. Meanwhile Skip Fox offered to help students who wished to design and produce chapbooks for themselves. We were stunned by the degree of interest, and Skip was able to open the project as a class, “Art of the Book,” that admitted both undergraduates and graduate students. The course resulted in some beautiful productions (you can click below to see some of them), and is running again in spring of 2002. (At least two of the 2001 projects have led to more extended publishing ventures—Matt Dube and Nate Pritts’s Lazy Frog Press and David Koon’s Inverted Press.) Meanwhile, anyone in the English department interested in learning the software and working on an independent project is welcome to come in to Griffin Hall 136 and try it out.
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projects
Art of the Book Class—Chapbooks
by UL Lafayette Graduate Students and Undergraduates
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To contact us by mail:
Director of Creative Writing, English Department, Box 44691, UL-Lafayette,
Lafayette LA 70504-4691; by telephone, 337-482-5478;
by email, jlm8047@louisiana.edu.
Last updated: May 1, 2002.