Fifth International
Conference
Consciousness, Theatre,
Literature and the Arts
June 15-17, 2013,
Lincoln, UK
Harry Youtt
Since 1990, Harry has
been an instructor in the UCLA (Ext) Writers' Program. He was granted the
distinction of being a co-recipient of the Writers’ Program’s Outstanding
Instructor in Creative Writing Award for 2004.
For several years, Harry was an instructor in the
Digital Arts Program at the University
of California at
Irvine, teaching courses in writing for convergent media
and information design. He also currently teaches classes in
consciousness and creativity at the
University of Philosophical Research.
Harry is also the creator and writer of the critically acclaimed ABC
Television pilot season website for David E. Kelley’s episodic television
series: The Practice. He has also been deeply involved in development of
practical applications for the internet and the World Wide Web.
He has presented papers on internet and broadcast communication theory in
the United Kingdom,
Canada
and Mexico, as well as the
United States. He co-developed UCLA Extension’s
original on-line courseware system, in which he taught the first writing
courses. He also worked with UCLA to perfect its live
two-way interactive video conference course delivery system, and he taught its
first on-line live interactive video courses in creative writing. Harry
is a fiction writer and poet whose recent collections of poetry include:
Outbound for Elsewhere, I’ll Always Be from
Lorain, and Even the Autumn Leaves..
His poetry has appeared in Passager, California
State Poetry Quarterly, Squaw Valley Review, Raging Dove,
and Bardsong, among other venues. His short fiction
and non-fiction appear in numerous other publications. He is a member of the
Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He has also conducted periodic poetry
readings in Ireland
and Wales, as well as in the
United States. He served for two years as the
Poet in Residence at the Philosophical Research Society in
Los Angeles, and for several years he conducted poetry workshops at
the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea,
Wales.