Introducing Falwriting's Special Weekend Edition

Evoking the writer’s room and industry practices

Creative Writing students at Falmouth have a myriad of opportunities of developing their writing skills and growing their portfolio across the different modules of our degrees. On the second year of their studies, this goes even further as student begin to craft their own journey by choosing modules to study different forms and expand their practice. Part of this work also includes core modules which help them establish robust critical and creative processes within their writing. This is the case of the Post-Digital Content module which brings you our newest development, FalWriting’s Special Weekend Edition.

In this edition we will publish samples of the work students are currently undertaking in this module. Every week students respond to a writing brief and work together to brainstorm within three rotating creative co-ops: Saboteur, De Rigueur and Dauphin. Saboteur, which specialises on disruptive content, De Rigueur which focuses on reaching the widest audience, and Dauphin, which reaches out to the beginners in the audience. Each co-op has its own audience and aesthetics and within their umbrella, students come together to decide how to interpret their weekly briefs. Once agreed, they set out to respond to the briefs as part of their co-op with their own post-digital writing.

A bold, new editorial strategy

Students submit their work to weekly deadlines and participate on a dynamic peer feedback online exchange to support each other in improving their writing. At the end of each week, they nominate pieces to FalWriting Special Weekend Edition taking part on the editorial process that selects examples of their work to publish here. In this process, students practice how content groups respond to briefs, develop a joint aesthetics, rely on each other for feedback and support, and decide together what to bring forward.

The pieces in this edition are brought to you by our 2nd year Creative Writing cohort. Their first brief: Writers and Hope.

Week 1 Brief: Writers and Hope

For this edition, writers were asked to respond to the theme of writes and hope, inspired by Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb. The pieces selected for publication by the editorial team of students are listed below: