A License to Write: The Iowa Writer's Workshop Experience

(2008, 18:00, digital video and found footage)
An energetic documentary that offers an insiders look at the writing workshops at the University of Iowa through reflective, funny, and touching interviews with former and current students. The film surveys the hardships, the passion, the self-doubt, and the triumphs that come along with devoting a life to the written word.
Created for the exhibit A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa at the Old Capitol Museum on the University of Iowa campus.
Produced by Jennifer Proctor and Jennifer New
www.jenniferproctor.com
www.jennifernew.com

[@rudyxrudy]

this shows James McPherson...AS A TEACHER HE HAD A POLICY TO saying Nothing....ever..../ he'd meet with us once and he said like 5 words to me.....period....I want jack Leggett to be honored as he was the best for 20 yrs!!!!

[@rizkywahyujati]

best writing university :)

[@LeCrackster]

What about the people that day within the workshop? That makes 4 kinds of writers.

[@lamarsmith5971]

I wonder how many students in this film went on to write a bestseller?

[@Lozie82]

I agree, but if I can get a free ride I'm going. I want the degree so I can teach as an alternative.

[@Dualhammers]

If you get rejected repeatedly from the Iowa Writers Workshop, does that mean you should never write again? What is the point of writing if you know you will always be an embarrassing mediocrity?