Pleiades congratulates Fei Sun, winner of the inaugural Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction, selected by judge Matthew Salesses. She will receive an award of $1,000 and her winning story, "How Many Times Did It Bloom," will be published in the Spring 2022 issue of...
More revision prompts to add to https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-all-of-the-revision-prompts-so-far/ - I'm teaching revision again, this time for a senior thesis workshop, in which students are workshopping novels, plays, TV and webisode scripts, whatever...
It's the start of the semester, and I thought it would be helpful to have all of the revision prompts so far in one place. I had to put this together for my own teaching materials, so here it is. 41 revision prompts and counting! 1. Make a list of all the decisions...
Two years ago I wrote about the plot of the American novel and the importance of the inciting incident(s) in The Millions. This post is a rewriting of that essay, charting a certain understanding of the novel's plot from where I left it then to how I conceive of it...
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision. The first 22 revision prompts are here. Another 7 are here. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. Research something fact-based or...
I took over editing the Pleiades blog at the beginning of this year, and I've been proud to be associated with a magazine that foregrounds context in a year when mainstream journalism has largely abandoned any responsibility to the historical and cultural forces that...
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, most recently 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 been thinking about is how grading can improve the...
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 a continuation of my posts on teaching revision. Earlier posts can be found here and here and here. What prompts do you use to teach revision? I'm a little over halfway through the revision workshop I'm teaching this summer, and here are 22 exercises I've...