Where did it all begin?
The Creative Writing Club of Luxembourg (CWC) has a rather
nebulous beginning (like most things in life). Much like
the missing links of evolution, it is hard to pin point
exactly when it started or at what point it stopped being
a casual meeting place over here and morphed into an organized
club over there.
There are a core of members who have lived in Luxembourg
for well over ten years, and there is a network of members
who have left Luxembourg but are still very much in our
thoughts, our e-mails, and out literary lives.
Some magnetic force – the desire to write-drew us
together. Was the point of our creation at Dana Rufolo’s
excellent creative writing classes at Luxembourg Accueil
www.luxembourgaccueil.com. Before that there were several
casual writing groups who in time gravitated toward each
other. Or did the CWC really come into formal existence
when we were housed for a few years in the European Foyer
Building in Luxembourg? It certainly became most organised
and blossomed into a real organism under Kim Berquist’s
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Suffice to say we have been around for a while and we have every
intention of staying. But many of us have since been published,
or have different reasons for belonging to the group then we
once did. So we don’t mind if we evolve more. And that’s
where new members coming in with their good ideas and fresh energy
can help.
To offer a sampling of what we do, although anything is possible,
here is a quick summary of some of the highlight events we have
organised or participated in:
- “Melting Pol” Writing Seminar at Mersch
Literary Centre
- Journal Writing Weekend
- Weekend writing retreat at D’Orval
Abbaye in Belgium
- Geneva Writers’ Annual Convention in
Switzerland
- Mosaic Writing Workshop with invited guest, Susan
M. Tiberghien, author of "Looking for Gold, A Year in
Jungian Analysis",
1997, and "Circling to the Center, One Woman's Encounter
with Silent Prayer", 2001
- Published our first Creative
Writing Club Anthology, “Writing
from a Small Country” in conjunction with book
launch at The Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de
Neumünster
www.ccrn.lu
- Participated in the International Book
Salon at the Clae Annual Festival of Immigration
including live
performances
and readings
www.clae.lu
- Wrote and participated in Art Echo at
the Casino – Forum
for Contemporary Art Luxembourg’s Open
Door Weekend, 2004 http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu
- Held
two Urban Poetry Evenings at the Urban Bar
www.urban.lu
- Held
a “Sensory Deprivation Evening” at Oscar Wilde’s
in the Grund www.oscarwildes.lu
- Public readings
recorded, and shaped with music and featured on local
radio broadcasts
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