December 16, 2016
Congratulations to all the NEA fellows in poetry for 2017, including contributors Nick Lantz, Edgar Kunz, Michael Bazzett, Jose Hernandez Diaz, & Nancy Chen ...
December 06, 2016
We are excited to announce the winner of the 2017 Gail B. Crump Award in Experimental Fiction. Jenny Drai's story, "A Brief History of One Bath," will be published in Pleiades 38.1, in Winter 2018. Jenny Drai is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Wine Dark (Black Lawrence Press) and [the door] (Trembling Pillow Press). Another collection, The History Worker, is forthcoming in 2017. ...
December 03, 2016
This is the latest in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee writes about her experience taking over a workshop that had a history of student conflict and navigating that conflict through the lends of the MFA vs. POC debate. As always, if you’re interested in contributing to this series, email me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee’s memoir, TELL ME ...
November 26, 2016
This is the third in a series of posts on teaching creative writing and the election. I’ve been thinking about how the classroom feels like the most productive space right now and wondering whether it’s because the classroom, the workshop, is a place where discourse still seems effective, desired, and open. Rather than a bubble ignorant of the rest of America, the classroom provides a space for America to be what ...