PICADOR at School
The guiding principles underlying the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature are Democracy‚ Diversity and Creativity. The magnificent cultural diversity that the invited authors from the USA, Great Britain and Canada bring to Leipzig will provide these guiding principles with committed ambassadors. The spin-off project ‘Picador at School’ enables students to participate in this form of creative interchange with English-language authors. Classes in the form of creative writing workshops given in cooperation with teachers from the Anton-Philipp-Reclam School engender in students an understanding of the immense treasures to be found in cultural diversity.
The students, around 14 to 18 years old, met every semester different authors like Megan Giddings, Josh Weil, Rita Bullwinkel, Morgan Jerkins, Rajesh Parameswaran, Daniel Gumbiner and many more!
On February 18 2020, Oksana Marafioti held because of Covid one of the first ‘Picador at School’ online workshop about creative writing. The author shared the following thoughts with the students of the Reclam Gymnasium:
