QW38 OFFER HOLDER OPEN DAYS 2019
BOOKING FORM
Bookings handled via Azorus.
Wednesday 24th April 2019
Rooms booked:
- Writers' Room - 11-5:30
- G03 - 11-5
- A0.28 - 12-5 (capacity 32)
- Millburn House Foyer - 11-5 - via Anita Golman
- F25a - 2-4 - use for Sarah Moss’s parents talk
AMBASSADORS
- Amy Hodkin - Unitemps compliant
- Michael Morgan - Unitemps compliant
- Himanshi Bajaj – Unitemps compliant
2019 OHOD SCHEDULE
11.30 WWP team gathers in Writers’ Centre for briefing.
- Check chairs / tables in G.03, Writers’ Room, and A0.28.
12.15 Millburn Foyer – Avengers assemble
12.30 Candidates and parents arrive in foyer of Millburn House.
Staff and student ambassadors circulate and talk to candidates / parents. Refreshments.
Biscuits, tea and coffee for 40 to be delivered for 12.15pm to Millburn House foyer: Confirmation here
12.50 Welcoming remarks by Director of ELCW Admissions Will Eaves.
13.00 Writers’ Room Plenary Session
- Will Eaves talks about the ethos and history of the combined ELCW degree in the WWP at Warwick
- Sarah Moss talks about the WWP as part of the School of Creative Arts and the shape of the “new” degree
- Will Eaves and Lucy Brydon on creative writing modules: Modes, CCW and PWP
- Jonathan Skinner on poetry at Warwick and performing / publishing
- Gonzalo García gives a brief introduction to gaming, playing and narrative
- Chantal Wright on translation studies and creative writing at Warwick
- Imperishable first-hand testimony – from Michael Morgan (2nd Year ELCW), Amy Hodkin (3rd Year ELCW), and Himanshi Bajaj (3rd Year ELCW)
- If we have time: Will and Sarah on careers in the arts – and your art, whatever the career
- Session round-up, what happens next, etc.
(NB: Q&A will take place at 3.00 over tea/coffee – again in the Writers’ Room.)
13.55 Offer-holders to be divided into 3 groups, equal numbers in each.
- Workshops for offer holders only in Writers’ Room, A0.28 and G03
14.00 – 15.00 Workshops
- Jonathan Skinner, Writers’ Room – POETRY
- Lucy Brydon – SCREENWRITING
- Gonzalo Garcia, A0.28 – FICTION, NARRATIVE, GAMING
14.00 – 14.45 Parallel session / Q&A in F25a with Sarah Moss and parents
Biscuits, tea and coffee for 40 to be delivered for 2.45pm to the Writers’ Room: Confirmation here
15.00 – 15.45 Q&A Writers’ Room for All Offer-Holders, Student Ambassadors, and Staff
15.45 Ends
Staff and students in attendance
Sarah Moss – novelist, Director of the Warwick Writing Programme
Will Eaves – novelist, poet, Director of ELCW Admissions
Gonzalo Garcia – novelist, gamer, Teaching Fellow
Lucy Brydon – novelist, screenwriter
Tim Leach – novelist, climber, Assistant Prof.
Chantal Wright – translator, Associate Prof (Reader)
Jonathan Skinner – poet, publisher, Associate Prof (Reader)
Student Ambassadors – Amy Hodkin, Michael Morgan, Himanshi Bajaj