Creative Claws

Cowley College encourages students to develop their creative writing skills as a form of self-expression and a means of communicating emotions, ideas, history, and perception of the world and the human condition.

Creative Claws is an avenue for writers at the college to showcase their works, primarily through Writers' Corners.

The club has grown as the creative writing program has grown, and now the club also sponsors events such as talent and comedy competitions.

Club Meetings
Creative Claws meets
Thursday, August 25 @ 2:30pm
Thursday, September 29 @ 2:30pm
Thursday, October 13 @ 2:30pm
Thursday, November 10 @ 2:30pm
Thursday, December 8 @ 2:30pm
in the Jungle conference room.

Creative Claws Writers' Corner
Sept. 20, 7 pm, Wright Room
Nov. 15, 7 pm, Wright Room
Feb. 16, 7 pm, Wright Room
April 19, 7 pm, Wright Room

Mile Marker Review - online journal of literature and art mmr

The Creative Writing Program at Cowley College is preparing to publish its second issue of Mile Marker Review, an online journal of literature and art.
The journal is ready to start accepting submissions and aims to showcase the creative talents of the Cowley family in poetry, short fiction, art, and photography.
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Other Events
Talent Show: November 10, 2011, Brown Theatre
Comedy Competition: April 5, 7 pm, Wright Room

2011-2012 Officers
President: Erica Parent;
Vice President: Zane May;
SGA Representative: Morgan Wilson;
PR/Marketing: Shannon Mahon

Sponsors:
Marlys Cervantes: Department Chair, Humanities; email: cervantes@cowley.edu, phone: 620.441.5560
Ryan Doom: Humanities Instructor, email: doomr@cowley.edu, phone: 620.441.5306

Writers' Corner is a time and place for students to showcase their creative writing talent. They are held throughout the year and provide students with the opportunity to present their works to an audience. The variety of works and audience reception have been wonderful. Hosting of a talent show is one of the yearly events the club sponsors. The show offers a variety of entertainment. This event also serves as a charitable function, as attendees can choose to pay a full admission or provide a non-perishable food item. The collected food items are donated to a local food bank. Humor is such a wonderful avenue of expression, and the comedy night competition is a great success. Writers of original comedic material present their comedy routine, as an individual or in a group, to the delight of an audience of peers and judges.
As another avenue to showcase works, the creative writing classes at the College combine to have a reception each semester. Students create a portfolio of their words. At this reception, the community, staff, faculty and students are invited to come review the works of the students. As part of Fine Arts Day, high school creative writing students enter their portfolio in the Creative Writing Prodigy Awards competition. The portfolio includes five creative writing pieces that show the range of writing talents, including short stories, poetry and song lyrics. The winner of the Creative Writing Prodigy Awards competition could receive a full tuition and books scholarship. Scholarships are available for Creative Writing students. A student could be awarded a scholarship based on personal interviews, creative writing talents and academic achievements.
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"For in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience."
Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher “Words cannot be killed. Thoughts cannot be silenced. Identity, ultimately, cannot be suppressed.”
Jace Weaver, Literary Critic We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Until then, I had felt as if I had been born into a raging ocean where I swam relentlessly….Never solid ground beneath me, never a resting place. I had lived with only the desperate hope to stay afloat….But when at last I wrote my first words on the page, I felt an island rising beneath my feet like the back of a whale. As more and more words emerged, I could finally rest: I had a place to stand for the first time in my life."
Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand

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