This is a continuation of the first part of this series, found here. If you're interested in contributing a guest post, you can reach me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. - 11. These are not only craft considerations. They are not only aesthetic. To wonder about...
This is the third in a series of posts on teaching creative writing and the election. I’ve been thinking about how the classroom feels like the most productive space right now and wondering whether it’s because the classroom, the workshop, is a place where discourse...
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...
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, specifically this one and this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. Last week I wrote about revision versus drafting and the idea of...
This is the latest in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. Jimin Han emailed me about an exercise she gave her students, and I asked her to write more. She co-teaches a novel-writing workshop, and does some really interesting things in her classroom....
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...
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 the latest in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. It's a response to the "'Pure Craft' Is a Lie" series, about colonialism in the workshop in the way we accept craft as "universal." Jerri Bell emailed me about what impact the series might...