Since it's time for syllabus creation, I've been thinking about the texts we choose, especially as models for students in creative writing courses. It's always the case that early texts, especially, become for some students a sort of standard to shoot for and a way...
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, specifically this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. One of the things I've instituted in my courses because of other posts on this...
This is the third in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The second is here. The fourth is here. * * * In part 2, I started to discuss how the workshop has some interesting similarities to the minority experience of real...
This is the second in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The third is here. The fourth is here. * * * As we saw in Part 1, the workshop decenters the voice of the author/workshopee. We also went over various ways in which...