Past
Non-Fiction workshop (June 2010) The third creative writing workshop was carried out by Writer-in-Residence Jeremy Harding with 10 registered students and one TA in the old city of Birzeit.
Students Comments:
I would like to have this workshop in my college.
JEREMY WAS GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME PARTICIPATE!! ALL THE BEST TO YOU GUYS.
Thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank you Jeremy Harding for everything. The workshop was a success. I promise I’ll keep writing.
We as Palestinian students should develop ourselves as writes. Our knowledge is our power. Throwing stones and protesting are important components of resistance, yet writers’ pens can’t be easily broken.
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Spoken Word Poetry workshop (February 2010) The second creative writing workshop was carried out by Writer-in-Residence Remi Kanazi with 13 registered students and one TA at the CCE and the Qattan Foundation.
Student Comments:
A great opportunity and a life experience, that will change you for the best.
Take this workshop and you will not regret it at all, this has been a great opportunity that I wish I can repeat all over again without any doubt or hesitation, so take it or you will regret it if you don’t.
Spoken word poetry workshop is amazing. It can build your confidence and help you be a better writer and a strong performer. I enjoyed every single part of it and wouldn’t mind to take it again.
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The Tool Box (November 2009) The first creative writing workshop entitled “The Tool Box” was carried out from Nov. 15-20 by Writer-in- Residence Rachel Holmes with 9 registered students and one teaching assistant at BZU and the CCE in Ramallah, Palestine. Dr. Rachel Holmes was a participant in the Palestine Festival of Literature in May of 2009. Her first book, Scanty Particulars: The Life of Dr James Barry, was published in 2002, and her second, The Hottentot Venus, a biography of Saartjie Baartman, was published in 2007. Rachel is Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre, Europe’s largest multi-arts centre, and is director of the London Literature Festival.
Student Comments:
I will encourage them to participate in these workshops because it is a great opportunity to meet great people and learn more skills in a different teaching style. And learn about new subjects (actually they are not new but you will feel they are new to you. For example, you will see that the terms character, plot, narrator are new terms to you.)
It is a great opportunity to get used of. You should go for it and exploit it as much as you can. In this workshop you get help from a famous writer which may be inaccessible in the future. This is the opportunity which you should not lose. Be smart and get used of every moment, and learn something new from every word. Don’t be careless and do the best you can.
What are you waiting for, go and register! I am an English senior student and this workshop benefited me so much in terms of reading, writing, and even observing. I always thought that I know what plot, voice, narrative, and character mean, but after the workshop, I have known these terms much better than before. Moreover, in the workshop you will find your voice and write things which you never thought before that you can.
