This is the latest in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. I asked poet Sun Yung Shin if she might write something about teaching socially conscious creative writing. She responded with the below. I asked her for an example to add at the end. As...
This is the fourth and last in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The second is here. The third is here. * * * In Part 3, I finally got around to the big question: whether the typical workshop actually holds up and...
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...
Over the weekend, I taught a one-day class on revision. I've been offering the class for years, but a few things have happened recently that have made me rethink parts of the course. First, I had to revise my novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, for the last time before it...