I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. - Believability: the differences and similarities between various...
This is a continuation of our posts on teaching revision. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. I'm teaching my revision-only course again this Spring, and though there is some repetition from 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. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. I remember a writer in my MFA program saying--in...
This is the first in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The second post is here. The third is here. The fourth is here. * * * Recently I was on a panel with two writers I admire and afterward we got to talking about PhD programs. One of them, an...
This is a series of posts from Lily Hoang and her students on how Hoang teaches revision workshops. I'll leave Hoang's post at the top and the student post below. This second student reflection on the revision workshop is by Allie Field Bell. As always, if you'd like...
This is a series of posts starting with Lily Hoang on how she teaches revision workshops, and then including her students' experiences of the workshop. I'll leave Hoang's post at the top and post a student post below. The first student post is by Brady Richards. As...
This is the first post in this series, "'Pure Craft' Is a Lie" continuing in Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Some alternate titles for this post: The MFA Story Craft as Colonization Craft vs POC Why Writers of Color Don't Write Pure Craft Essays A Lot of Craft, A...