January 29, 2016
An introduction: This is the first of what I'm hoping to make a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. I reached out to author Lily Hoang and asked if she might talk about her particular style of workshopping. Below she gives a good breakdown for why she started breaking from the traditional "Iowa" model that many writers are familiar with. Hoang gives some good background for this series. I'm hoping next to get ...
January 22, 2016
This is a continuation of last week's post about teaching revision...
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After we've talked about the outside story's first and finished draft and done a number of macro things to think about how we look at a story as a whole, I move my revision class into thinking about their own pieces on a more micro-level.
In my class over the weekend, I started this by mentioning the most common tip I heard back on from ...
January 13, 2016
Over the weekend, I taught a one-day class on revision. I've been offering the class for years, but a few things have happened recently that have made me rethink parts of the course. First, I had to revise my novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, for the last time before it was published, and I felt for the first time that I had a pretty good grasp of how, exactly, I was revising it--that is, what my revision process actually ...
January 08, 2016
Janice N. Harrington writes poetry and children’s books. She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska, and both those settings, especially rural Alabama, figure largely in her writing. Her first book of poetry, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her second book of poetry, The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home, came ...
