Whether you are a Writing major or are simply deeply interested in writing, you can find an informal community of Pitt writers at the Writers' Café. Make contacts with other writers, try your hand at different genres, let guided freewriting exercises jumpstart your process, and share feedback on works-in-progress with peers from all over campus. In this session we’ll explore “world-building” and the spatial mapping of a city or a region. We’ll look at how the settings from which we write or write about are informed by specific image systems, colloquial speech, and cultural forms, and we’ll discuss the social implications of re-mapping and re-narrativizing a place. Join us!