All posts in "phd"

Notes on Culture and Craft, part 1

Nov 7, 2016

I've written here before about culture and craft, but have been thinking about the ways genres are classified. I just took my comprehensive exams, and a large part of the fiction exam revolved around genres. Some thoughts below, in part one of something new. As...

Who’s at the Center of Workshop and Who Should Be? (Part 1)

Apr 23, 2016

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...