Christopher Newport University's own creative writing club! The Writer's Syndicate works with Currents: Literary Magazine to bring creative writers together. The purpose of the group is to encourage students to create written works and share them with the club. Giving each other notes on how to improve our skills, we help inspire one another to come up with more ideas and to always keep writing. Whether it's a short story, poetry, or even an essay for a class, we're here to build each other up!
Rachel and Maddie reading off of a submitted script. Transcript
As a creative writing club, we're interested in all writing. We'll work on poetry, prose, plays, song lyrics, graphic novels, and even school assignments and resumes. The purpose of the Writer's Syndicate is to provide a welcoming and fun atmosphere for developing our writing skills.
Our writers all come from very different genres. Some club members come in each week to recite some of their poetry for the group. We've had people come in and read scripts that they're written both for classes and for fun. Several people present novels they're in the process of writing (usually one chapter a week) and it's truly enthralling to be introduced to a new story that came from someone we know. People present short stories and little series that they've been working on. Even if it's an essay for a class, we proofread and edit anything that's presented.
During meetings, we keep open minds to anything that's read on the projector and offer notes to each other's works. We keep things pretty light, often starting the meetings with joking around before we get into it. We often have prompts every two weeks, but it is by no means mandatory to follow the prompt or even present something of yours every week.
Writer's Syndicate is open to all writers (on and off campus) and their creative works. We meet once every week to work and discuss.
We were recently featured in CNU's newspaper!
