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Creative Claws
Cowley College encourages students to develop their creative writing
skills as a form of self-expression and a means of communicating emotions,
ideas, history, and perception of the world and the human condition.
Creative
Claws is an avenue for writers at the college to showcase their works,
primarily through Open Mic Nights.
The club has grown as the creative
writing program has grown, and now the club also sponsors events such
as talent and comedy competitions.
Club Meetings
Creative Claws meets on the last Monday of the month at Noon in the Jungle
conference room.
Creative Claws Talent Show
Tuesday, November 18 @ 7pm in the theater
Admission:
$2, or $1 and can of food to be donated to Manna Ministries.
If you’re
interested in participating in the show, entry forms are in Humanities
and must be turned in to Marlys Cervantes by the end of this week. Screening
for the show will take place Monday afternoon, and all acts must sign
up this week for a screening time.
2008-2009 Officers
President: Nate
Newland,
Vice President: Krystal Knight
SGA Representatives: Jessica
Dyer,
PR Representative: Josh Patton
Sponsor: Marlys
Cervantes, Department
Chair, Humanities
email: cervantes@cowley.edu,
phone: 620-441-5560
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| Open Mic Nights is a time and place for students to showcase their creative writing talent. Open Mic Nights are held throughout the year and provide students with the opportunity to present their works to an audience. The variety of works and audience reception, has been wonderful. | Hosting of a talent show is one of the yearly events the club sponsors. The show offers a variety of entertainment. This event also serves as a charitable function, as attendees can choose to pay a full admisison or provide a non-perishable food item. The collected food items are dontated to a local food bank. | Humor is such a wonderful avenue of expression, and the comedy night competition is a great success. Writers of original comedic material present their comedy routine, as an individual or in a group, to the delight of an audience of peers and judges. |
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| As another avenue to showcase works, the creative writing classes at the College combine to have a reception each semester. Students create a portfolio of their words. At this reception, the community, staff, faculty and students are invited to come review the works of the students. | As part of Fine Arts Day, High School creative writing students enter their portfolio in the Creative Writing Prodigy Awards competition. The portfolio includes five creative writing pieces that show the range of writing talents, including short stories, poetry and song lyrics. The winner of the Creative Writing Prodigy Awards competition could receive a full tuition and books scholarship. | Scholarships are available for Creative Writing students. A student could be awarded a scholarship based on personal interviews, creative writing talents and academic achievements. |
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| "For
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again
in recording and reflecting upon our experience." Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher |
“Words
cannot be killed. Thoughts cannot be silenced. Identity, ultimately,
cannot be suppressed.” Jace Weaver, Literary Critic |
We
are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing
how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Ray Bradbury, Writer |
| "Until
then, I had felt as if I had been born into a raging ocean where
I swam relentlessly….Never
solid ground beneath me, never a resting place. I had lived with
only the desperate hope to stay afloat….But when at last
I wrote my first words on the page, I felt an island rising beneath
my feet like the back of a whale. As more and more words emerged,
I could finally rest: I had a place to stand for the first time
in my life." |
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