English 291 - LAKES WRITING WORKSHOP

An intermediate-level workshop in which writers develop their skills through intensive reading, writing, revising, and critique. Emphasis on narrative writing, broadly defined to include a variety of genres, depending on the interests of the current holder of the Lakes writing residency. Every day we receive information from words and pictures working in tandem: on road signs, storefronts, Facebook and Instagram, on cereal boxes and in films. In this course, students regularly produce original writing that invites images into the text, drawing from our study of graphic novels, artist's books, medieval manuscripts, comic strips, literary texts with images, illustrated children's books and playscripts that invite visualization on stage. You don't have to draw or have "artistic talent" to take this workshop-style course-photos and digital images are welcome. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor.

Topic: Picturing the Text: A Word and Image Workshop. Writing Sample Required.