Teaching Creative Writing
ROY COWDEN, who began teaching at his alma mater, the University of at mater, the University of Michigan, in 1909, was for almost twenty years Director of the Avery Hopwood Awards, a series of cash prizes which are conferred each spring in Ann Arbor on undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated their ability in poetry or fiction. His skill as a constructive critic and his lifelong interest in the “creative process" have made Professor Cowden a respected and beloved teacher; and under his encouragement more than sixty volumes in prose and verse have now been published.