March 15, 2017
This is a continuation of our posts on teaching revision. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
I'm teaching my revision-only course again this Spring, and though there is some repetition from the last time, including some repeated revision prompts (see here and here for old examples--I'll post any new ones once the course has wrapped up), because of ...
March 05, 2017
We are very pleased to announce that Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's story "dissolving newspaper, fermented leaves" received a "Special Mention" in the Pushcart Prize XLI Anthology.
For a sneak peek, read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here.
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
dissolving newspaper, fermenting leaves
To persuade her cricket to eat, Margaret Morri cooked every recipe she’d ...
February 25, 2017
How do you use technology in Creative Writing workshops?
During my AWP panel on workshopping, someone in the audience mentioned that a friend ran his workshops by having students submit all their critiques online beforehand, so that the writer could look them over and then use classtime to ask questions. I like this idea, though I also like how readings and opinions and questions change through conversation. In ...
February 17, 2017
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My entire life I have been trying to get my head around how loving someone does not necessarily mean empathizing with him. How loving often means silencing not yourself but a part of your beloved.
One thought this leads to is that love is cultural. How we love, and who we find loveable in which ways, is cultural. And our culture is conflict. Perhaps this is because of our American myth of the individual.
The ...
