The definitive impulse to start writing, a self-confidence therapy, the stimulus to tell that story that is kept in a corner of the soul or a creative activity for an active retirement. The students of the Vicenç Pagès Jordà Writing Room of the Girona City Council are as diverse and heterogeneous as the motivations that have led them to want to write. But all of them, despite their different origins, ages or abilities, are touched by the same passion for writing. And for reading! Since the founder of the school, the late writer from Figueres Vicenç Pagès, did not conceive of one activity without the other.

Versatile writers, who relate to literature from multiple vocations (reader and fiction writer, literary critic and columnist, essayist and theorist and teacher), incorporate all the technical skill and accumulated knowledge into everything they do and every piece written by others, not so much as a question of genre conventions as of appropriateness and register. In the twenty or so articles collected in the volume entitled Prose course, which were published between 2018 and 2022 in the Girona Magazine, Vicenç Pagès Jordà (Figueres, 1963–Torroella de Montgrí, 2022) chose to prioritize his vocation as a teacher. I mean, before being imaginative and experimental, as he usually was when writing novels and short stories, before being striking and bold, as he usually was when writing literary criticism or articles about books or the world of literature, in these roles VPJ wants to be and shows himself, above all, analytical, clear, and explanatory. He taught writing classes.