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Writers & Their Regions

Writers & 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 on a specific creative project over the semester.


Class 2010

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

Reading List

  • Tracy Daughterty'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.

 



Class 2009

The pilot WATR course and reading list focused on the way that artists ground their work in Place, specifically East Texas. WATR's class meetings included discussion of the texts as well as students' creative projects. In May, the class presented its projects to the University community in the Honors Commons.

Reading List

  • William Goyen's The House of Breath
  • Mary Karr's The Liars' Club 
  • Yusef Komunyakka's collected poetry
  • William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom
  • Music of Charles Mingus
  • Charles Mee's play bobrauschenbergamerica   

Retreat 2009

Over the week of Spring Break, the class and faculty traveled East to the Retreat at Artesian Lakes, just outside of Cleveland, Texas, to create and live together. During the day, everyone split up to work, explore the landscape, and exchange ideas, but in the evening they came together to cook dinner, share stories, and present the day's efforts.