Creative Writing and New Orleans Literature

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Explore New Orleans through sampling its literature while developing your creative writing skills. We will read selections from various genres of New Orleans literature as well as works about the craft of writing, and spend time inside and outside of class on our own creative writing pursuits. We’ll discuss where writers lived and wrote in the French Quarter, attend readings together, and learn about the craft of writing from New Orleans authors. These activities, along with hearing each other’s pieces read aloud, will help us discover how literature can illuminate a city. Discover the literary imagination of New Orleans, and begin to experience your time at Tulane as “a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands” (Tennessee Williams).