The course is for students interested in writing as an artistic process. It allows them to discover the field of contemporary writing while trying their hand at writing.
This workshop adopts a practice-based approach. One or two short texts are written at each session, based on prompts provided by the instructor. These prompts vary throughout the sessions, so that each student can discover the type of writing that suits them best. Each student then reads their text or a short excerpt in front of the group, in an atmosphere of listening, before beginning a collective discussion on the materials, gestures, and methods at the heart of the act of writing. The course thus allows the acquisition of a variety of tools useful for literary, poetic, or artistic writing. One of the semester's sessions is dedicated to performative forms of writing – narrative performance or poetic performance.
The instructor and students also share their readings, whether recent or older texts, written by authors, poets, or artists.
In addition, students are required to attend, two Wednesdays per semester from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, the meeting with an invited author on the programme of the « Monde parlés ». Individual one-on-one exchanges are possible with these authors, offering discussions that are always rich and stimulating.