Creative Writing Studies Conference 2016 Accessibility Guide
[photo taken by rachel klein]
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina [The image shows one of Warren Wilson’s many green pastures just alongside Warren Wilson Road. In the distance is their farm’s White Barn, which is primarily used to house their ewes. The Blue Ridge Mountains peek out of the horizon.]
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Welcome to Warren Wilson College, site of the inaugural Creative Writing Studies Conference! The Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) is dedicated to the idea that research and scholarship in the arts and humanities be available to everyone. The Creative Writing Studies Conference’s (CWSC) goal is for this event to be accessible to all, including interested members who may be physically or financially unable to attend. Warren Wilson College can be a challenging campus physically: it is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains and has hills, uneven terrain, and older buildings that are not subject to current Americans with Disabilities (ADA) regulations. To counter these challenges, we have put together a team to address any access needs that may arise, either before or during the conference. Below meet your host and Access Advocate volunteers; volunteers will be wearing bright green CWSC t-shirts during the conference and will be at a central table so you can find them. Please feel free to contact us with any questions, concerns, or requests.
Rachel Haley Himmelheber, Conference Host [email protected]
Rachel Klein, Access Advocate, CWSC Volunteer
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Matthew Tennant, Access Advocate, CWSC Volunteer
Julia Griffin, Access Advocate, CWSC Volunteer
Table of Contents
Travel and Parking………………………………………………………………………. 4 Kittredge Classrooms……………………………………………………………………. 5-7 Kittredge Recital Hall……………………………………………………………………. 8 Pavilion……………………………………………………………………………………. 9-10
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Kittredge Theater and Lobby……………………………………………………………. 11-12 Holden Art Building………………………………………………………………………. 13 Holden Gallery……………………………………………………………………………… 14 Conference Schedule…………………………………………………………………… 15-18
Travel and Parking The airport most convenient to Warren Wilson is the Asheville Regional Airport, about 20 miles from the campus. The Charlotte Douglas International Airport is about 120 miles from Warren Wilson College, and the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is about 75 miles from the College. There is a Greyhound Bus Station about 10 miles from the campus. Parking at Warren Wilson College is conveniently located next to the conference buildings. Conference attendees will park in the Kittredge Theater lot, and signs along Warren Wilson Road will direct conference goers to this space.
Asheville Regional Airport 41 Terminal Drive Fletcher NC, 28732 Telephone: (828)-684-2226 The AVL Regional Airport is approximately 20 miles from Warren Wilson College with six rental car agencies that serve the airport. Additionally, the airport’s website has a page detailing their accessibility. Find both links below:
http://flyavl.com/passenger-services/parking-transportation/. http://flyavl.com/passenger-services/special-needs/
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Kittredge Classrooms and Recital Hall Our conference will use the bottom four classrooms on the first floor of Kittredge. Specifically, classrooms 15, 16, 25, and 26-- along with the Recital Hall: a large, open space at the end of that hallway. Below are photographs and descriptions of those spaces.
Classroom 15: This classroom has a lot of natural light that comes through the three large windows on the furthest wall. The lights are fluorescent and the carpet is deep burgundy. See below for a photograph of the carpet’s texture:
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Classroom 16:
Similar to the classroom above, this classroom has three large windows, a chalkboard, and burgundy carpet. The carpet is smooth with few bumps, and the fabric has
minimal tearing.
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Classroom 25 This classroom has two chalkboards and one window. Additionally, there are fluorescent lights on the ceiling. Comparatively, this classroom is smaller than the previous two, but still allows plenty of comfortable space. It is also closest to the nearest exit, which leads to a sidewalk toward Kittredge Parking Lot.
Classroom 26: This classroom has five large windows, a whiteboard, fluorescent lights, and wooden cabinets. Unlike the other classrooms, this one features a linoleum tiled floor. There are two doors, one of which leads directly out toward an exit which has an accessible sidewalk toward the Formal Gardens.
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Kittredge Recital Hall: This room is spacious with a lot of natural light and hardwood flooring. There are two
doors, one of which leads directly outside to a sidewalk leading toward the Formal Gardens. The other leads back into the hallway where there are two bathrooms and
other exits. This room also features a small stage with a built-in ramp on the left side:
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Pavilion:
Our Pavilion is located just a short walk away from the Kittredge classrooms and Recital Hall. An open air space, the pavilion is surrounded by wooded area with a gravel walkway leading up to the Health Center.
There is a small stage, hardwood floors, string lights, folding chairs, and tables. The nearest bathroom is in the Health Center. The Pavilion is wheelchair accessible by using the walkway coming from the gravel
driveway.
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Pavilion Continued:
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Kittredge Theater and Lobby The Kittredge Theater Lobby has an abundance of natural light from three entire walls of windows. There are two entrances into the theater and two bathrooms. The floor is smooth brick with little to no bumps. Both entrances are wheelchair accessible and lead out to main campus roads.
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Theater Bathrooms:
Both restroom have stalls with one larger stall at the end. There are large mirrors with automatic soap dispensers and sinks. Outlets sit directly above the sink counter, and the
smooth brick floors stay consistent.
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Holden Art Building and Gallery: The Holden Art Building and Gallery is directly behind the Kittredge Classrooms and just a short distance from the Pavilion. The building is wheelchair accessible through a sidewalk ramp from the main Kittredge exit, and there are large double doors into Holden. See the ramp below:
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Holden Gallery:
[photo courtesy of warren-wilson.edu]
The Holden Gallery will be an empty room with tiled floors. There are no windows that look to the outdoors, but there is glass that looks to the lobby. From the ceiling are
suspended studio lights hung from wooden beams The gallery is situated just outside of Holden’s main lobby, which has a smooth carpet and hallway leading to two
bathrooms.
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Conference Schedule: Friday, September 23, 2016, 3-7PM 3:00-3:45PM (Kittredge Recital Hall) Keynote: "Building and Mobilizing a Sustainable, Knowledge-based Culture for Creative Writing Studies" by Dr. Dianne Donnelly Dianne Donnelly is the Assistant Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences at USF. As a creative writing scholar and academic who addresses the theory, epistemology, and pedagogy of creative writing, she is the editor of the popular collection Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? (2010), author of Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline (2011) and co-editor with Graeme Harper of Key Issues in Creative Writing (2012) as well as a contributor of many chapters/articles in Creative Writing Studies collections/journals. She is the associate editor of the New Writing Viewpoints book series, invited editorial board member of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing , and serves on the Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) board of directors. 3:45-4:30PM (Kittredge Recital Hall) The Future of Creative Writing Studies: Plenary Panel Discussion led by Stephanie Vanderslice, author of Can It Really Be Taught: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy , Rethinking Creative Writing in Higher Education , and Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates (Stephanie Vanderslice, Graeme Harper, Phong Nguyen) 4:40-6:00 PM Panel 1: In the Group Home: Disenfranchised Youth and Creative Writing Workshop as Prevention (Alyse Bensel) If the Shoe Fits: Using Fairytales to Connect Creative Writing to Social Advocacy (Jennifer Pullen) Expanding Creative Writing’s Reach through Political Advocacy: Story as Connection, Story as Community (Susan V. Meyers) Panel 2: Collaborative World Building: Bridging Critical Thinking and Creative Production (Trent Hergenrader) Twilight of the Vanity Press: The Case of BlazeVOX (Julie Platt)
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Practices of E-Writing and the Self-Identity of Literary Authors (Kathleen Scheurs) Panel 3: Race and Difference: How Creative Writing Instructors Can Practice Inclusive Cross-Cultural Pedagogy (Tonya Hegamin, Anjail Ahmad, Darin Ciccotelli, Cinelle Barnes) 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Wine & Cheese Reception in the Warren Wilson Pavilion Saturday, September 24, 2016, 9AM-6PM 8:00-9:00 AM coffee and continental breakfast and mingling (full breakfast available at campus cafeteria) 9:00-10:20AM Panel 1: Place-Based Pedagogy and the Creative Writing Classroom (Jennifer Case) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creative Nonfiction (Naomi Washer) Creative Writing in General Writing Classes: Despite Common Core and Emphasis on STEM Education, Students Want and Need Imaginative Writing (Kate Kostelnik) Panel 2: Writers Don't Cry: Emotional Labor in the Creative Writing Classroom (Jennifer Shomburg Kanke) Craft and Identity in the Introductory Creative Writing Classroom (Julie Babcock) Multiplicity of Identities in Asian-American Literature: Immigrant Identities in Constant Flux (Cinelle Barnes) Panel 3: Neither of Writing, Nor of Literature: Art Histories of Creative Writing (Ben Ristow) Creative Writing Studies and the Disciplinary Histories of English (Tim Mayers) Creating the Venn Diagram - Where Academic Scholarship and Creators Meet (Craig Olsen) 10:30-11:50AM (Kittredge Recital Hall)
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Outing the Creative Writing Classroom: panel on action-based workshop that reflects on the history of inclusion (or lack thereof) in the creative writing classroom and what outing oneself as queer, trans, or differently abled means not only as a student but also as a teacher. (Tonya Hegamin, Margot Douaihy, Anjail Ahmad, Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Racquel Goodison) 12:00-1:15PM Lunch in the Warren Wilson Pavilion (Rainy day alternative: Kittredge Lobby) 1:30-2:50PM Panel 1: Writers with Disabilities: We Don’t Have To Meet Your Genre Expectations (Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Karrie Higgins, Elizabeth Glass) Panel 2: Teaching Multimedia Practices: Covers, Translations, and Adaptation (Yona Harvey, Kerry Banazek, Erin Anderson) Panel 3: Reimagining the Cyborg: Crafting New Environmental Fiction (Michelle Donahue) Beyond Collaboration: Systems Theory and Creative Writing Instruction (Erick Piller) Notes to Self: Inspiration in the DIY Age (Phil Sandick) 3:00-4:20PM Panel 1: Practice, Practice: On the (Un)productive Work of the Writing Studio (Gary Hawkins) The Dreary Chair She Sat in Glowed: Flannery O’Connor, the Failure of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Future of Mentorship in Creative Writing Studies (Brent House) “Usefulness of Knowledge”: Using Collaborative Writing to Promote Student Learning and Engagement (Amy K. Ash) Panel 2: Teaching the Undergraduate Literary Magazine (Janelle Adsit)
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An Epistemological Map of Creative Writing Studies (Kelle Mullineaux) Of Lore and Reality: Actual Pedagogy in Modern Creative Writing Classrooms (Jennifer Kiefer) Panel 3: Difficult Students in the Creative Writing Classroom (Audrey Colombe, Lisa Norris, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley) 4:30-5:50PM Panel 1: Adding Seats at the Table: The Necessity for Collaboration between Secondary and College Creative Writing Teachers (Chris Drew) Shared Spaces: Embodied Poetics, Aesthetic Ecologies (Gretchen Henderson) Voyeurism and Lesbian Memoirs: To Be Seen and to Be Real (Racquel Goodison) Panel 2: Expectations and Assessment: Making the Grade in Creative Writing Workshop (Andrea J. England, Gary McDowell, Sebastian Paramo, Caitlin Pryor) Panel 3: Epistemological Liminality: Approaching Creative Nonfiction and/in the Space Between Composition and Creative Writing (Crystal Fodrey) Sequential Thinking in Creative Nonfiction (Michael D. Clark) Creative Writing Styles and Transfer: Creative Writers Teaching in the Composition Classroom (Jonathan Adam Udelson) Panel 4: We Need to Talk: A New Method for Evaluating Poetry (Michael Theune, Bob Broad) Sunday, September 25, 2016, 8AM-10AM Creative Writing Studies Organization Board of Directors Meeting. All CWSO Conference attendees are welcome to sit in!
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