A Writing Class for Current and Prior Service Members

Hosted by Art Spark Texas
Held at Apache Arts & Craft Center
761st Tank Battalion and 62nd Street, Bldg 2337, Fort Hood

Class Schedule: Saturdays, July 13-August 3, 2019 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Instructor: Clayton Bradshaw
FREE

Register by calling 512-454-9912 or email April Sullivan.
Space is limited. Any experience level welcome.

This four-week course is designed to help current and prior service members tell their stories. The greatest writers have served in war. From Chaucer to Hemingway and Vonnegut to Tim O’Brien, they have found ways to bring life truths to the masses. This class will give you the tools to write about your experiences or to express the truths you have learned in a life built on service. We will focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Clayton Bradshaw served in the US Army for eight years as an infantryman. He deployed with 3/2 SCR to Iraq from 2007 to 2008 and to Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. He graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BA in English and currently participates in the MFA Creative Writing program at Texas State University while teaching writing to university freshmen. His work can be found in The Deadly Writers Patrol, r.kv.r.y., Second Hand Stories, War, Literature and the Arts, and O-Dark-Thirty. He is currently writing a novel, Quietus, based on the post-war struggles of the veteran community.

An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network is a partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Aairs and the state and local arts agencies with administrative support provided by Americans for the Arts.