The international course Fundamentals of Poetry is a pilot programme designed to validate procedures, contents and methodologies for international learning of creative writing, a non-formal discipline in most european countries that demands a way to unify learning criterias.

The project will involve six different writing schools to create a cooperation network for interchanging of knowledge and writing techniques. This network will develop a course that should serve as a basis to test the methodology and content, unify this discipline and create a best practices guide.

The course will involve teachers and students from each partner. Every participant will be closely followed in order to validate procedures and guidelines. These procedures along with guidelines will generate a best practices guide for future international writing courses and, in the end, for the consolidation of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes.

An international conference on creativity and writing will take place from 19th to 22nd of November 2010 at Orivesi College of Arts in Finland.

On Friday, the invited plenum lecturers will be writers Niina Hakalahti (Finland), Rubén Abella (Spain) and James Richardson (USA). On Saturday and Sunday we shall listen to speeches dealing with topical aspects and problems of creativity, writing, and translation. The speakers come from various European countries, and also from other parts of the world. The planning of our conference began within the European Network of Creative Writing (ENCWP) and was completed within the new association (EACWP). This is the second European conference on creative writing after the large one in Leipzig (2005).

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