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My name is Jessica Milliken and I am the President of UFV\u2019s first Creative Writing Club, CreWri UFV. With my fellow executives–or Scholars–Ashlyn Tegg, Chuck Barker, Julia Dovey and Abrianna Leaming, we have founded the first student led creative writing club dedicated to creating \u201ca positive and safe working space for UFV writers of all departments, writing in all creative writing genres to work together, collaborate, share, workshop, and present their work to other creative writers at UFV,\u201d as our mandate reads.<\/p>\n
I am thrilled to announce that as of Wednesday October the 19th, 2016, CreWri UFV became an officially registered club with the Student Union Society.<\/p>\n
Our club is open to any current student of UFV, whether you are an English major or not \u2013 our focus is creative writing in any and all genres and bringing writers together through a variety of different events.<\/p>\n
Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n Each Scholar is planning a workshop series that will run throughout the next year, including form poetry workshops, fantasy, children\u2019s writing, playwriting, screenwriting, publishing, editing, idea formation, writing prompts, procrastination and many other \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 topics. There will be a workshop for everyone. More details will be released on these \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 workshops as they become available.<\/p>\n Writer\u2019s Block Parties <\/strong><\/p>\n This is your chance to workshop some of your own work. Bring in a few copies of \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 whatever you are working on (play, poem, scene, novel, short story\u2026 etc.) to share and \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 workshop with other creative writers. We hope to have a Writer\u2019s Block Party once a \u00a0\u00a0 month.<\/p>\n Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n Readings are the opportunity to present your work to an audience. Yes, it is terrifying and \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 exhilarating all at the same time. Our first reading is fast approaching! We are hosting \u00a0 Spooky Readings on Halloween day at 11:00am in the Great Hall in the SUB.<\/p>\n The event \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is FREE and open to anyone to attend. If you are interested in reading, send your \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 submission to crewriufv@gmail.com<\/a> for the Scholars to approve. Time slots are 5 minutes and the deadline is October 29th<\/sup> at midnight. Check our Facebook page<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n (*Note, you must be a signing member of the Club–or Scribe–to read at these \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 events. In order to be a Scribe you must sign a pledge promising to adhere to creativity \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 intellect and creating a safe space. Pledges will be on hand at the event.)<\/p>\n My fellow Scholars and I are honoured to embark on this journey in the creation of the first creative writing club for UFV students. This club is very dear to us, and to see it start to breathe, start to live, start to gain fire, is incredible. I\u2019d like to thank everyone who came out to the AGM, and those who wanted to be there. The support we have from students, faculty, and SUS is wonderful, so thank you.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how to reach us!<\/p>\n eMail:<\/strong> crewriufvgmail.com<\/p>\n Facebook:<\/strong> facebook.com\/crewriclub\/<\/p>\n Instagram:<\/strong> @crewriufv<\/p>\n If you have any questions, don\u2019t hesitate to contact us. Together we will write, and together we will be strong.<\/p>\n Willfully yours,<\/p>\n Madam President<\/p>\n Jessica Milliken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tokien and Lewis hung around with The Inklings at Oxford . . . where will the new CreWri UFV club take our writers? Student guest post by Jessica Milliken Hello to any and all creative writers here at UFV! My name is Jessica Milliken and I am the President of UFV\u2019s first Creative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n