Writing Climate, Writing Community

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By 2100, sea level rise is projected to make the Market St neighborhood in Warren, RI uninhabitable, and the town is beginning an ambitious plan for managed retreat. How can writers support them in telling stories of what the neighborhood has been--and shaping the story of the future of the town? Guided by faculty and community partners who are working writers and audio storytellers, town managers and planners, public health workers, and the residents of Market St themselves, students in this course will elicit, co-create, and present the story of Warren as it has been and as it is becoming, with the goal of creating a readable, hearable, and visible community archive, a documentation of the transition, and tools for shaping that transition as it moves forward.