Creative writing in the Correctional Institution: the Greek case
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https://doi.org/10.7203/JLE.6.25543
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Creative writing is a field that has been flourishing over the last years in Greece. Creative writing projects are being implemented in many different institutions and a continuously increasing number of partakers engage in them. A special case of such a project is the one that takes place in the 3rd Second Chance School (SCS) in the Correctional Institution of Diavata. There, in collaboration with the University of Western Macedonia in Greece which imparts a Master´s in Creative Writing program and the voluntary participation of many students of the program, creative writing activities give the chance to the inmates that involve in them, to express their thoughts and communicate their ideas to the world outside of the prison through their writings. This paper aims at presenting one of the numerous creative writing activities that were carried out during the project in the SCS of Diavata, an activity that evolved around the notion of truth.
Key words: Creative writing, Second Chance Schools, truth, correctional institution.
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La escritura creativa es un campo que está floreciendo en los últimos años en Grecia. Los proyectos de escritura creativa se están implementando en varias instituciones y un número cada vez mayor de participantes se involucra en ellos. Un caso especial de tal proyecto es el que se lleva a cabo en la 3a Escuela de Segunda Oportunidad (E2O) en la Institución Correccional de Diavata. Allí, en colaboración con la Universidad de Macedonai Occidental en Grecia que imparte un programa de Maestría en Escritura Creativa y la implicación voluntaria de muchos estudiantes del programa, las actividades de escritura creativa dan la oportunidad a los reclusos que partiipan en ellas, de expresar sus pensamientos y comunicar sus ideas al mundo fuera de la prisión a través de sus escritos. Este estudio trata de presentar una de las numerosas actividades de escritura creativa que se realizaron durante el proyecto en la E2O de Diavata, una actividad que evolucionó en torno a la noción de la verdad.
Palabras clave: Escritura Creativa, Escuelas de Segunda oportunidad, verdad, institución correccional.
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