From time to time, I have been asked to give craft book recommendations, especially by and/or for writers of color. Having read ~50 craft books in researching my own book, here are ten volumes that I have found useful in thinking about craft, all written by non-white...
A new archive popped up with a few essays from this blog and elsewhere by writers of color on craft. Here it is: https://www.de-canon.com/blog/2017/5/5/writers-of-color-discussing-craft-an-invisible-archive The ones from the blog are under the Pedagogy section. I...
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 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....