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- ISSN: 1753-5190
- E-ISSN: 1753-5204
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‘But what are they?’: Zine-making and invitational creative practice in an undergraduate creative writing class inspired by the work of Lynda Barry
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By
Anthony Cartwright1
- Source: Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, Volume 15, Issue Ways of Writing in Art and Design, Sep 2022, p. 166 - 183
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- 09 Jun 2022
- 07 Jul 2022
- 01 Sep 2022
Abstract
This illustrated article offers a record of work done for a third-year undergraduate module called Creative Writing and the Self, as part of the Creative and Professional Writing programme at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in the autumn term of 2021, where students created zines as a record of their student experiences, which corresponded to the years of the pandemic. The article considers the students’ creative process and what is communicated in the zines, pages from which illustrate the article, informed by the methodology of Lynda Barry. The module offered the opportunity for staff and students to use a more open-ended rhetoric than elsewhere on their course(s), and the article considers this alongside the pedagogical implications of a hybrid and multimodal form and approach, of telling stories using text and images, inviting acknowledgement and observation, rather than judgement.
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