Friday, August 3, 2012

The Lit Mag is available!



Hi, Everyone,

Thank you for such a wonderful end to such a great month! I'm so proud of all the work you did! Here, we have our edition of The Purchase Review, available for free from lulu.com. Click here to download.

I hope the rest of your summers are full of swimming and BBQs and anything else that's fun and awesome.

Thanks!
Theresa

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Wednesday, 8/1: Revisions and Workshop

Revisions and workshop
Optional lesson: villanelle

Workshop: Jack, Samantha, Lina, Jake.

This week we will finish, workshop, and revise the pieces for the lit mag and for the reading. There will an extra workshop so that everyone has ample opportunity to receive feedback. I encourage you to send you work to me, Anna, and/or Linnea, to get our feedback.

By lunch today, please email me:
truth, lie, best moment, worst moment, glad I am, wish I were. You can have these be short and simple or longer and complex. They can be funny or serious-- whatever you want.

For the reading:
Each person will have about five minutes to read. This will be 4-5 pages double-spaced. You may choose anything that you wrote or worked on this summer: prose, poetry, drama (one-acts and monologues). Also note that you can read a combination, for example: a poem, a piece of flash fiction, and an excerpt from a novella.

For the lit mag:
2-5 pieces. If you are submitting poetry and/or flash fiction, I would like you to put in more pieces. If you are submitting all or mostly prose, it's fine to put in fewer.
Author's Bio: please write up a little blurb about yourself. Here are some examples. My personal favorite in #20.  Here are some more examples. If you scroll down, you will see a "tag line" and an "extensive bio." You can do either. I would like you to limit the amount of specific information (geography, school name, etc.) and speak in more general terms.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Summer Reading and Reception

                                             

 




CWI’s Summer Reading and Reception

Families and friends of our CWI writers are invited to attend our Summer Reading and hear the poems, prose, and dramatic writing that our talented young writers have been working on this summer! We will also present our 2012 edition of The Purchase Review, which will be available for free through Lulu.com.

Friday, August 3rd
1:30-3:30 Reading and Reception
Natural Sciences Building
First Floor, Room 1001 (Lecture Hall)
 
 
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Monday, 7/30: Revisons!

This week we will finish, workshop, and revise the pieces for the lit mag and for the reading. There will an extra workshop so that everyone has ample opportunity to receive feedback. I encourage you to send you work to me, Anna, and/or Linnea, to get our feedback.

For the reading:
Each person will have about five minutes to read. This will be 4-5 pages double-spaced. You may choose anything that you wrote or worked on this summer: prose, poetry, drama (one-acts and monologues). Also note that you can read a combination, for example: a poem, a piece of flash fiction, and an excerpt from a novella.

For the lit mag:
2-5 pieces. If you are submitting poetry and/or flash fiction, I would like you to put in more pieces. If you are submitting all or mostly prose, it's fine to put in fewer.
Author's Bio: please write up a little blurb about yourself. Here are some examples. My personal favorite in #20.  Here are some more examples. If you scroll down, you will see a "tag line" and an "extensive bio." You can do either. I would like you to limit the amount of specific information (geography, school name, etc.) and speak in more general terms.

Afternoon:

Read-Around:

Mini-workshop
Daniel, Samuel, Megha, Lina

Friday, July 27, 2012

Friday

Write: Monologues, one-acts, and other work
Read-around

Lunch

Workshop: Sarah, Samantha, Samuel, Jake, Rose, Katie

Kraken

As per our discussion yesterday, this is the Kraken (thanks, Daniel!). Lamprey eel-ish, I'd say. Also, gross.