David Sheppard

Writing

University of Colorado: 

(Studies toward a 2nd undergraduate degree in English.)

• 9 Units American Literature 

• 6 Units Creative Writing 

• 3 Units Critical Writing 

Writing Background

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WRITERS GUILD (RMWG)

• Member of RMWG for 7 years.

• On its Board of Directors for five years.

• Four years, novel workshop at the RMWG.

• Member of RMWG's Live Poets Society, four years.

• Founding member of RMWG’s Literary Society. Chaired meetings.

Seven years, private writing group, six members.

Writing Conferences:

• Aspen Writers Conference 1987

• Sierra Writing Camp 1990

• Novel Conference (RMWG) 1990

Publications:

• The Paris Review (Poem), 1991. "Walking Away"

• Poem ("Walking Away"), Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology, 1987, England - Judged by Ted Hughes (Poet Laureate of Great Britian, now deceased) & Seamus Heaney (winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, 1995).  

Novels:

• The Escape of Bobby Ray Hammer (Unpublished)

• The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis (Unpublished)

• Storm (in work)

Nonfiction: 

• Oedipus On a Pale Horse, Journey in Search of a Personal Mythology. (Travels in Greece and Turkey, unpublished).

• Novel Writing (Class Notes)

• Introduction to Greek Mythology (Class Notes)