All posts in "mfa vs poc"

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee on Workshop Strife

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee on Workshop Strife

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...

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“Pure Craft” Is a Lie (Part 3)

“Pure Craft” Is a Lie (Part 3)

This is a continuation of the Part 1 post and Part 2 post of “‘Pure Craft’ Is a Lie." The series continues in Part 4. * * * The writers of color in this workshop where the craft values are white, or the LGBT writers in a workshop where craft values are straight and...

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Peter Turchi on the Workshop “Gag Rule”

Peter Turchi on the Workshop “Gag Rule”

This is the second of a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. A while ago I organized a series of posts on race and the creative writing workshop at Gulf Coast. In my essay, "The Reader vs. POC," I argued for a serious and more direct consideration of...

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