This post features (creative) student writing.
A Day in a Putney Writer’s Life: An Outline
- Train ride to Howth:
- Lots of card playing amid extremely patriotic train cars (the DART)
- Colorful rooftop graffiti scattered on the outskirts of Dublin
- Lighthouse:
- A sea and rock lined trudge to an ampitheater-style marina facing ledge for Julia to read us “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore
- Scattered beneath the lighthouse, we wrote either how-tos or whatever came to mind inspired by the craggy scenery
- Lunch:
- Fish and chips, either haddock or cod at Beshoff Bros (unless someone was picky)
- Hike:
- Magnificent not-so-steep climb with a group emblem of roadside Morning Glories
- We read sonnets overlooking the ocean and witnessed swimmers jumping off distant rocks
- Landscape inspired sonnets (some with mermaids, some with curdling clouds)
- Pick-up:
- The writers who stayed at the Howth cafe, drinking china tea
- Back to the DART train
- Dinner and Ulysses:
- Delicious
- A book adapted into a play: odd, startling, confusing (wonderful to some, too much for others)
- Night meetings:
- Satirical and revering sonnets about Julia and Chris
- shout outs, highs and lows
- That’s it, we’re tired.
-Haley and Azalea
