Dr. Randall Smith – Creative Workshop Masterclass

Dr. Randy Smith has a Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century American Literature and MA in English. He founded and is the director of the BFA Program in Creative Writing at Belhaven University where he has taught for the past twenty years.

He collects books, plays the drums, and writes poetry. Dr. Smith grew up on a farm in south Georgia and was the first person in his family to go to college. Some of his favorite authors are Angie Thomas, Flannery O’Connor, Seamus Heaney, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isabel Allende, and Jesmyn Ward.

Dr. Smith, along with select writers from the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, will lead a creative workshop for the students in the Literary Arts Department. Students will receive feedback on their writing during the workshop session.