Showcasing the talents of student writers, the seventh annual Festival of Writing will take place from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms.
The festival will highlight academic writing, oral and dramatic presentations, mixed media presentations, research techniques and more. It offers a great opportunity to network and collaborate with other writers and faculty in the Oakland community.
A typical year hosts roughly 250 writers and about 400 visitors, according to Jennifer Coon, special lecturer for the department of Writing and Rhetoric. A number of local high school students also have been invited to get a taste of collegiate writing and media work.
“Students who choose to participate are accepting the challenge to think about their writing in a new fashion,” Coon said. “It is an opportunity to think dimensionally about their composition and how it might present itself in our dimensional world.”
A diverse array of projects are encouraged, with students drawing new interpretations of their own work and experimenting with new and different medias. This sophisticated mixture of written works and technology offers an experience of students interacting with the audience and the audience interacting with the medium, according to Coon.
This year boasts presentations from student poets and playwrights, as well as audio narratives, digital projects and more.
The department will also be collecting audio literacy narratives this year in booths during the festival for the Digital Archive Literacy Project. This national initiative is accepting literacy narratives in print, video and audio to preserve for a historical record.
A multitude of prizes are being offered for individual work, group work, oral projects and door prizes. Students may submit materials from fall or winter semesters and can include and academic writing, digital projects, photographs, web-based work, dramatic, lyrical or a combination of mixed media.
“A successful Festival of Writing is one that creates a space for student writers to connect with the audience and for visitors to experience the dimensional possibilities of composition,” Coon continued. “There is an energy, an excitement that is created upon reading and speaking with a writer. This association creates memory and thus experience.”
Showcasing the talents of student writers, the seventh annual Festival of Writing will take place from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms.
Created by Katherine Land - Deleted (land@oakland.edu) on Monday, March 30, 2009 Modified by Katherine Land - Deleted (land@oakland.edu) on Monday, March 30, 2009 Article Start Date: Monday, March 30, 2009
