Scissortail Creative Writing Festival Extra Credit

 REMEMBER, no class on Friday so you can attend (if you wish) a session or two of the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival. It starts Thursday morning and runs all day, with hour to 75 minute-long sessions, with a break for lunch and a break for dinner. There are also evening sessions (one) at 7:00. The entire schedule is here: https://ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-schedule-of-readings.html

Once you attend a session (or two), you can answer the following questions just like one of our daily readings to get extra credit. This can take the form of excused absences, missed responses, or simply a few extra credit points to  your grade, which can help border-line grades at the end of the semester. 

Answer all FOUR:

Q1: Which author did you find most interesting in the session and why? Did you connect more with their material, their performance, or something else? Would you read more of their works if you could? Would you recommend it to others? 

Q2: In general,  how did the readers perform their works? Was one more physical or theatrical than another? Or were all more or less the same? Did one's performance help you 'see' or understand their material? Did one make it more difficult to hear or understand it? 

Q3: Discuss the audience for your session: how did they react to the different pieces? How can you tell when an audience likes or is less interested in a piece? Did they clap between pieces? Did you often know why they were clapping (was it obvious)? Did anything about the audience reaction surprise you?

Q4: How did all the pieces in your session work together--or not? Did they seem to complement each other? Or was one very different or almost out of place? Did one help you appreciate another one? And did you like the fact that they weren't all poets, or they weren't all reading fiction?