Someone told me there is some creative writing done in Writing 1, in the Visiting Writer week. What is the Visiting Writer week and what can I expect?
A practicing writer visits each Writing 1 section during the term to lead a creative writing workshop. The week shares the goal of Writing 1 – to energize and help transform student writing – but has a special emphasis on meaningful play, exposing students to techniques and experimental practices used by creative writers. During the week, students can expect to read one to three short pieces of imaginative literature (typically poetry), discuss some of the choices that shaped it, experiment with similar choices during in-class writing, write and receive feedback on a take-home exercise, read one of their own pieces, and hear some work from their peers.
