Artists & Their Regions (formerly Writers and Their Regions) is the CCW's signature course. It features seminar-style class meetings and a week-long artists' retreat that gives students and faculty time to focus on their creative projects. 

The course is offered each Spring to upperclassmen dedicated to honing their craft and developing a specific creative project over the semester.

Class 2010

In Spring 2010, the Writers & Their Regions class focused on the relationship between story and place.

Reading List

• Tracy Daugherty's It Takes A Worried Man 
• R.G. Vliet's Rockspring
• Sheryl St. Germain's How Heavy the Breath of God
• Guillermo del Torro's films The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth

Retreat 2010

Over Spring Break, the class stayed in a ranch house on the Frio River and enjoyed a week of living and working together. Students worked on projects ranging from needlecraft to film to creative writing.