workshops
Creative Writing Workshop
A workshop with an introduction to flash fiction and creative writing in English is open to all students. Creative writing tasks will be available in all four languages.
You are invited to join us in an exploration of creative writing, try out different techniques and discuss ideas. All you need is words and your imagination! Expressing yourself in a foreign or second language might seem challenging, but it can often be a most liberating experience where language is used as a medium that allows for freedom of expression.
Bring your protagonist(s) to life through dialogue, descriptive passages and emotive language. Appeal to the senses. Observe. Look at the little, everyday things that attract attention and can have special value. Use extended metaphors and stylistic devices, zoom in or zoom out. For more creative tips and practice tasks, join us on …
date: March 13th, 2024
venue: seminar room 14, 1st floor, Agnes Heller Haus, Innrain 52a
time: 17:30 - 19:30
contact: interplayPhilKult@uibk.ac.at
Please confirm your participation by email and indicate the language(s) you would like to work with.
The Writing Club
What?
- free creative writing club – for students, organised and hosted by Violet Stathopoulou and StV Englisch Lehramt in collaboration with professors from the Departments of English and American Studies
- regular writing workshops
- anything goes - prose, poems, articles, short stories etc.
When & Where?
next session: Creative non-fiction
date: Tuesday, June 11th, 2024, 7pm
venue: SR 40735, GeiWi, 7th floor
new dates & venue for WS 2024/25 TBA in September!
Who?
- you - and all students of the University of Innsbruck who would like to write creatively in English, regardless of their field of study!
Anything else?
- writing materials are provided – but if you’d like to, you can bring your laptop
- any questions? stv-la.englisch@oeh.cc
- sign up here: https://forms.gle/tTBPpCNNLEeM7uJ46
contact: stv-la.englisch@oeh.cc