Christine Hyung-Oak Lee on Workshop Strife

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 ...

CW Workshop & Trump: 7 Things I Teach (Salesses)

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 ...

CW Workshop & Trump: David J. Daniels on Listening, not Silencing

November 12, 2016

This is the second 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 ...

CW Workshop & Trump: Ellis Avery on the Imagination

November 11, 2016

This is the first of possibly 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 ...