photo: Mary Ellen Mark, "Acrobats Rehearsing Their Act at Great Golden Circus Ahmedabad, 1989" ©1989 Hair Trigger 22 cover


Tutoring and Mentoring

Tutoring
Story Workshop ® concepts, philosophy, and teaching techniques are utilized to train and provide tutors who, concurrent with their training semester, staff the Fiction Writing Department Tutoring Program. Tutors assist Fiction Writing students who need help with reading and writing skills through a repertoire of Story Workshop ® exercises.

Mentoring
Fiction Writers at Lunch is a mentoring program for freshmen, sponsored by the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago. Freshmen meet with upperclassmen to share free box lunches. They discuss topics of educational and general interest, inspiration, and survival to freshmen at Columbia and in the Fiction Writing Department. They meet and interact with guest speakers from the writing community. Lunches take place every week, rotating for example between Tuesday one week and Wednesday the next. This rotation is an effort to include as broad a cross-section of our freshmen population as possible, accommodating a variety of students’ class and work schedules.


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photo: Mary Ellen Mark, "Acrobats Rehearsing Their Act at Great Golden Circus Ahmedabad, 1989"
©1989 Hair Trigger 22 cover