User:Lstockington/Iowa Writers' Workshop

Methodology
The Workshop was formed by Norman Foerster's passionate support for creative writing and Wilbur Schramm's conviction that writing should be as technical and rigorous a pursuit as any traditional literature degree. The workshop model for higher education creative writing was created in that pursuit of technical intensity. The model constantly exposed students to outside opinions on their Fiction and created a pressurized atmosphere which forced students to reign in their emotional reactions and consider their own writing from an analytical angle. The Iowa Writers Workshop operated without the characteristic assumption of the time that artists needed to be unleashed, instead the workshop opted to focus and refine them. While intended to service fiction writers, the Iowa Writers Workshop began to change in the 1970's when it's first Non-Fiction Thesis was accepted. Ever since the Workshop has produced many literary journalists and shaped public perception of creative non-fiction.