One line at a time: Creative Writing & Poetry Course (1 week in Athens)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Dates

2025: Upon Request

2026: Upon Request

Intro

This week-long course is a practical introduction to creative writing in poetry. The course will consist of taught seminars covering ways to develop a reflective writing practice followed by workshopping of participants’ work.

The course consists of a series of collaborative and individual exercises as well as connected readings and analysis in a range of poetic approaches, styles and techniques. The course is designed to help develop not only essential aspects of the poet’s craft but also to widen the horizons of what a poem might look like and what it might be able to do. The course will explore, through practice and reflection, trends and developments in a range of poetic texts, introducing participants to issues, techniques and contexts of contemporary poetry.

This course aims to develop skills in creative writing practices, in critical reading and analysis and in research practices relevant to poets.

Participants will write and workshop their poems in a welcoming, stimulating context.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course will include the following:

– Creative writing techniques

– Building up a poem: Find your own words

– Integrate creative writing in your school syllabus

– Implement new methodologies in the classroom

– Provide students with resources to reach their maximum potential

– Use non-traditional methodologies to analyze texts

– Engage students in reading and writing and in deep analysis and understanding of the content

– Encourage your students to research on their own feelings and needs

– Help them appreciate and enjoy literature and poetry form of expression

– Improve your own communicative skills and self-expression

Course requirements: Attendees should at least be at B1 level of English.

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Destination:

Athens. The city with the most glorious history in the world, a city worshipped by gods and people, a magical city. The enchanting capital of Greece has always been a birthplace for civilization. It is the city where democracy was born and most of the wise men of ancient times. The most important civilization of ancient world flourished in Athens and relives through some of the world’s most formidable edifices.

Who hasn’t heard of the Acropolis of Athens? Photos and history of the most famous archaeological monument in Europe is admired by thousands of people. Acropolis is nominated to be one of the 7 wonders of modern world. In fact the trademark of Athens is one of the favorites. The Holy Rock of Acropolis dates back to the 5th BC, the famous Golden Age of Periklis. Athens met times of bloom and decline, but still shines under the Attic sky gazing the future. Still sparkling like the marbles of Parthenon and the limpid white of Pentelic marble.