Community Collaborations: Creative Writing: Craft & Genre
Participants will learn new skill sets in writing techniques through writing exercises.
Participants will building community through shared interests and participation in the class. Participants will contribute to the local history of our area through the collection of writing that will be produced in book form. Outcomes will be measured in a written survey given out to class participants and also during the public reading to community members in the audience. At the book release party, the audience will have time to connect with their family members, listen to creative writing, and be inspired to write themselves. An outcome of the previous memoir writing class has been a writing group of five participants in the class that has been meeting monthly. This is a possible outcome of this upcoming class.
All participants expressed enthusiasm and appreciation for the course. Participants said that they learned a great deal from the class, and the class helped some members get back into their writing. Class members asked if there would be future classes. A small group of participants began a writing group.
Class writings were compiled in a book, Collected Writings; Creative Craft Course, Northfield Public Library, June 2015.
Northfield Senior Center, SELCO, Northfield Public Library