Sumários

Rant and soliloquy

26 Maio 2025, 15:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Discussion of: Jamaica Kincaid 'Girl' and J.D. Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye' (excerpt)

Rant and soliloquy: introduction and tips
Timed writing exercise


Oral presentations of Story 3

26 Maio 2025, 12:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Oral presentations of Story 3


Mariana Rabaçal Leonor 

Sara Ferreira Alves 

 

Melanie Campante da Silva 

Nuno Marreiros Leite Estanislau 

Rafael Manuel dos Ramos Martins 

Raquel de Castro Barros Melo Espinha 

Filipa Isabel Lopes Silva 

 

Alexandre Gabriel Ferreira Fernandes Lima 


Oral presentations of Story 3

26 Maio 2025, 09:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Oral presentations of Story 3


Patricia Pinto Henriques 

 

Pedro José Carregal dos Santos 

Rafael Baço Cardoso 

Sara Rafaela Pinto Gouveia 

Tiago Filipe Ramos Fernandes 

Mariana de Almeida Cardoso Rebelo Abreu 

Isis Nadine da Gama Ramos 

 

Joana Maria Gamito da Silva 

 

 


Metafiction

22 Maio 2025, 14:00 Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Groups created metafictional prompts.


HW for next class:

Write a metafictional flash fiction story (about 250-300 words — but can be more if you want —, to be voted next class), based on one of the following prompts (created by your colleagues):

 

Students 2024-25 S2

Group A)

Prompt 1: Your character is a fiction screenwriter of dark humour. Every joke they write eventually happens to them as punishment.

Prompt 2: Rewrite Titanic but in a plane. The two main characters are reincarnations of the real Jack and Rose from the original boat and they are aware that the plane will crash because they have been through the same. No one else, of course, knows.

 

Group B)

Prompt 1: you find a page describing your day and it ends saying "you're going to get a job at (specific work place)" and you start to try control your fate and not get the job because you get freaked out at how accurately the page is written, but no matter how hard you try your fate seems sealed. 

Prompt 2: your character finds himself stuck in a loop, trying to survive, dying, and immediately restarting the day exactly the same, till one day he gets a text and he figures out he's not alone… 


Oral presentations of Story 3 / Zines lesson

21 Maio 2025, 15:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Oral presentations of Story 3


Sara Alexandra Cristino de Caldeira 

Sara Costa Coelho 

Zofia Valente 

Matilde Ribas Sasportes 


Mini lesson: an introductions to zine culture and creation