/lit/ - Literature

Here in Denmark we have a government supported writers school. Every year ca. 300 people send in their applications (15 pages of self-written prose or poetry and some about yourself and you inspirations - you know the drill).

Only 5-8 of the applicants gets to enter the two year program.

And i hope to be one of them, infact i just mailed my application.

So i thought this would be a good time to start a discussion on whether or not this is a good idea. Whether or not a school like this is a good idea (the teachers are all published authors) and whether or not it is a good idea for the me (the average writer wannabe) to enroll, i mean can you really learn writing from other people?

tl;dr A discussion on government supported art and whether or not a teacher is a good thing for aspiring writers.

top 7 american writers: (in no particular order)

1. Jack London
2. T.S. Eliot
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. James Baldwin
5. Walt Whitman
6. e.e Cummings
7. William Faulkner

iHave to write Walt Whitman style catalog about the night by tomorrow. Will /lit/ help me? (what a fucking bad ass though)

If I ever make a film version of Dracula, I will direct Dracula to be like Whitman, and everyone will be extra terrified because they wont know what the fuck to think

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the Whitman be puttin us down