Palestine Writing Workshop
Website: http://palestineworkshop.org/
Email Address: write@palestineworkshop.org
Editor/Founder: Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Country: Palestine
Type: Institution
Description: The Workshop is the first programme in Palestine to offer emerging writers a structured community and curriculum to develop as creative writers. The objective of the Workshop is to target, encourage, and train aspiring writers, to provide them with a set of transferable skills to support their artistic and intellectual writing capacity, to build a community of emerging Palestinian writers, and to identify new talents. Facilitating a range of course modules and workshops across all writing genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, life-writing, spoken word, critical writing, writing for income), the programme will offer a structured diploma-granting course available to students enrolled in the programme, as well as the option for students to audit courses or workshops. In its first programme period, the Workshop currently offers Writer in Residence Workshops. Within the next 6 months, the Workshop will launch 10 week courses, develop new writer-in-residence workshops, facilitate basic online writing modules and support, and create a community for creative writers, including extra curricular and required activities and programmes. Founded by an instructor from the Birzeit University (BZU) Department of English Language and Literature in an effort to foster seeds planted by the Palestine Festival of Literature, the Workshop works with the BZU Center for Continuing Education (CCE) and others to look beyond academe. It seeks to empower aspiring writers throughout the country, giving them the tools to creatively express and develop their inner thoughts and experiences.
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Website: http://palestineworkshop.org/
Email Address: write@palestineworkshop.org
Editor/Founder: Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Country: Palestine
Type: Institution
Description: The Workshop is the first programme in Palestine to offer emerging writers a structured community and curriculum to develop as creative writers. The objective of the Workshop is to target, encourage, and train aspiring writers, to provide them with a set of transferable skills to support their artistic and intellectual writing capacity, to build a community of emerging Palestinian writers, and to identify new talents. Facilitating a range of course modules and workshops across all writing genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, life-writing, spoken word, critical writing, writing for income), the programme will offer a structured diploma-granting course available to students enrolled in the programme, as well as the option for students to audit courses or workshops. In its first programme period, the Workshop currently offers Writer in Residence Workshops. Within the next 6 months, the Workshop will launch 10 week courses, develop new writer-in-residence workshops, facilitate basic online writing modules and support, and create a community for creative writers, including extra curricular and required activities and programmes. Founded by an instructor from the Birzeit University (BZU) Department of English Language and Literature in an effort to foster seeds planted by the Palestine Festival of Literature, the Workshop works with the BZU Center for Continuing Education (CCE) and others to look beyond academe. It seeks to empower aspiring writers throughout the country, giving them the tools to creatively express and develop their inner thoughts and experiences.
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