Creative Writing in the Community

Creative Writing in the Community is a class at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. In this class students use poetry and storytelling as tools to enhance literacy, learning attitude, self-confidence, character, and self-awareness in children, youth, and adults throughout central Florida. In addition to each student in class serving as a mentor/tutor to others in the community, students examine and analyze the purpose of creative writing, the purpose being a creative writer, the value of Community-based Learning (CBL) in the literary arts, and the impact of cultural/social issues on individual and community creativity.

We’re going to post our experiences, stories, pictures, and discoveries during the fall of 2008.

This class functions under the umbrella of The Literary Arts Partnership at UCF. We have an online photo album of students engaged in the community through creative writing field work.