TCWCC Conference for Teachers of Creative Writing

In 2023 Metropolitan Community College in Omaha hosted our first conference on Teaching Creative Writing at the Community College and Other Student-Centered Writing Programs.
We were energized to hear from colleagues across the country about innovative approaches to teaching, hands-on writing exercises, grading philosophies, and navigating the unique challenges that come with teaching in smaller and/or open-enrollment institutions.
In 2017, MCC began offering an Associate in Creative Writing. Our students enter the creative writing classroom with a vast range of experiences, skills, interests, and aspirations. Because we are a community college with a strong emphasis on teaching, we designed a program that intentionally disrupts what we saw as limitations in the traditional creative writing pedagogy. We practice meeting students where they are, teaching writing as a craft with core skills that can be taught/learned, embracing student interest in genre, and fostering workshops that encourage revision without discouraging writers.
We see the growth of the TCWCC Conference as a natural extension of our mission to support not just our students, but also the faculty teaching in our program and in similar programs across the country.
This year we invited proposals from instructors who teach or aspire to teach creative writing, especially those that center the needs of first-year writing students.A full schedule of accepted proposals will be posted by September 15th. In addition to our daytime conference presentations, we hope to offer engaging offsite activities in the evenings. Furthermore, while the conference will wrap up the morning of the 26th, all attendees will receive complimentary tickets to our 8th annual Creative Writing Forum, which opens at noon on the 26th. Our Keynote at this year's forum will be poet Nathan McClain.

Please note, coffee service and Friday boxed lunch are included in your registration. Grab and go lunches for Saturday are available as an add-on.

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Host or Publisher Metropolitan Community College Creative Writing Program