Teaching Writers Call for Papers

EACWP 

The conference of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes is a biannual event devoted to foster a European and Worldwide dialogue on the different approaches to creative writing education. The VI EACWP conference will take place in Madrid, in the context of Escuela de Escritores 20th anniversary, from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 May 2023. The on-line format for proposals will only be accepted for the Multilingual Workshops. The deadline for submissions is February 24 2023

Teaching the art and craft of writing is a wonderful challenge. Can talent be created or just trained? How to enhance creativity? How do we shape up our students as writers? What role do reading, textual analysis, intertextuality, multilingualism and other strategies play in our teaching? How to make creative writing an inclusive discipline for all people, literatures and literary traditions? How to open it up to the diversity of new writers? What role will technologies play in the evolution of our teaching?

These are just some of the questions we invite all our colleagues to reflect on and discuss at this worldwide conference.

Call for papers

Central to the conference will be an acknowledgement of the importance of creativity and how enhance it through the practice of writing. In times of crisis –probably, the only possible times-, writers can make creativity a permanent way of living as artists, continuously questioning, developing and reformulating our craft.

The conference will be structured in two (2) blocks and six (6) main subjects:

The Art

1. Creativity

What do we call creativity? Has our approach and our way of understanding and teaching creativity changed in the 21st century? What are the different pedagogical worldwide approaches and discussions that are taking place in our different schools and institutions around creativity? What tools and/or methodologies can we rely on to identify the different creative types among our students in order to be able to guide them according to their real creative strengths? How to train artists that express themselves through writing? How to help them to develop a personal way of looking at the world? How can literary creation be related to other disciplines, not only artistic, but also scientific, sports, cultural, etc.? How writers re-dimension the sense and the experiences of crisis to enhance their creativity and artistic vision? What role can we play, creatively speaking, in facing the main problems of our times (climate change, war, energy rationing, immigration, political extremisms, etc.)? What are the challenges of censorship and self-censorship? What about social responsibility? Are non-realistic genres such as fantasy, science fiction and dystopia efficient creative mechanisms to address present and current issues?

2. Workshops

Workshops on any topic CW will be welcome. Most of these workshops will take place in English and will take place in Madrid.

In order to allow a wider exchange and according to our mission of promoting the literary creation in all our beautiful mother tongues, we will also accept proposals of workshops in any European language, which could have an special audience. These Multilingual Workshops could take place in Madrid or, in some cases, in the Internet.

The craft

3. The Melting Craft Pot

Proposals related to the wide spectrum of creative writing & creative reading, literary creation and storytelling are welcome in these conference sessions. Contributions on new group dynamics, transmedia storytelling, classroom decolonization and innovations plus personal views on CW pedagogy will be also assessed as well as all kind of lectures/presentations dealing with collaborative projects, translation and pedagogical/literary research. Writing on writing and literary research papers will be also welcome.

4. Short stories corner

What are the current approaches to short story writing and teaching as a literary genre? What are the different teaching methodologies and approaches in Europe? What is the role of the short story in CW teaching? Which new authors are renewing and enriching the literary canon of the short story genre? Flash Fiction writing & teaching.

5. New technologies

Creative writing on line teaching: pedagogical approaches, methodologies, exercises & group dynamics to abridge the classroom context to home (& vice versa). Synchronic and diachronic models. Videoconference, virtual campus and how to combine them. Video courses, podcasts and other approaches. Creative Writing in the context of social media.

6. Writing Europe and the World

An open invitation to discuss both creative writing & teaching in Europe and all over the world, with special focus in America and in the Arabic World, both traditions closely connected to the Spanish language & culture.

Participation

We welcome ideas for interactive talks and presentations of 20 minutes, workshops of 60 minutes, or panels and roundtables of 75 minutes, on creative writing teaching and research. (If submitting an abstract for a panel or a roundtable, we ask you to confirm the details of all those attending including bios in your submission.)

The conference will take place in Madrid. On-line proposals will only be accepted for the Multilingual Workshops.

Proposals should consist of a brief (100 word) outline, exactly as you would wish the session to be described in the programme, plus biographical information on all presenters (50 words each).

The deadline for proposals is February 24 2023.

If you have any queries, please, email the EACWP

Conference fees

Non EACWP members: 125€

EACWP & NAWE members: 90€

Students: 75€

The Proposal Submission form is on the website of the EACWP  

The European Association of Creative Writing Programmes

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