The Virginia Community Writing Collaborative

Workshop & Creative Play

Creative Play: Coming Soon Summer 2024 Blue rectangular shaped banner at the top of the website

Accepting submissions now through Summer 2025.

Please see description below!

Let us honor, make visible, and or celebrate the rejections, failures to launch, and under-realized projects that crossed our fingers, keyboards, brains, desks, hearts, sleeps, and email accounts this academic year. . . Our new workshop subpage will accept one page/image repurposed artifacts through summer 2025. Up to three per author. To participate, please choose a short proposal or communicative task (pedagogical, administrative, or interpersonal) that *failed* this academic year. Remake it into a poem or image. That is: Black out, cut up, repurpose, alter, art-i-fy or somehow recreate that failure into a *one page* artifact with new meaning. Submit your artifact in any file format to VACommunityWriting@gmail.com

For anyone interested in craft as rhetorical practice, Julian Viveiros recently published this multimodal (print and audio) review of Leigh Gruwell’s book Making Matters: Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics in Composition Forum. Viveiros’ review includes chapter summaries and explanations of major concepts that can help conceptualize craft rhetorics – which is especially relevant for our proposal above!