How A Writer’s Craft Can be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part 4 As I’ve tried to lay out in my first three posts of this series, I am very interested in and supportive of the move to create an anti-racist creative writing workshop. That doesn’t mean that the conversation is always comfortable, nor should itContinue reading “Confronting My Discomfort About Anti-Racism”
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Where I’m Coming From: The Origins of My Workshop Practice
How A Writer’s Craft Can Be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part 3 Let me just put it out there: I’m a straight white guy, so you’d be justified in asking what right I have to write about anti-racist anything. My goal in writing this series of posts is not to co-opt the discussion or toContinue reading “Where I’m Coming From: The Origins of My Workshop Practice”
Some Thoughts on Craft
How A Writer’s Craft Can Be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part 2 The word “craft” can sometimes take on a negative connotation in discussions of anti-racist workshops, and I get it. Strict ideas about craft have often been used as justification for certain kinds of writing over others, and yet craft does not have toContinue reading “Some Thoughts on Craft”
How A Writer’s Craft can be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part I
Let me just say, I’m reading The Anti-Racist Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez, and I’m looking forward to reading Craft in the Realy World by Matthew Salesses, two books that came out this year that are rethinking creative writing pedagogy in the light of anti-racism. I’ve read articles byContinue reading “How A Writer’s Craft can be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part I”
What I’m Up To: Jan. 2021 edition
January is always a tough month on my blog. Despite the New Year’s resolutions to post more regularly (that I’ve mostly stopped making), life gets pretty busy. That’s true, even more than usual, this year. Besides the normal start of the semester flurry of getting classes online, getting students in classes, admitting new students, etc.,Continue reading “What I’m Up To: Jan. 2021 edition”
Celebrate National Scholarships Month by Searching for One
I’ve recently received a notice about Sallie Mae’s scholarship search tool for graduate scholarships, so I wanted to mention it here. Finding funding for grad school can be a challenge, unless your program is fully funded. Having a search tool like this could be a game-changer for some. Their $20,000 Bridging the Dream Scholarship wouldContinue reading “Celebrate National Scholarships Month by Searching for One”
Virtual Symposium Followup
A week ago was the first day of the 32nd annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. For the first time in those 32 years, our symposium was totally virtual, something that is happening with a lot of events this year. The photo we used for our cover was taken a fewContinue reading “Virtual Symposium Followup”
Virtual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium
It’s October, and that means a big part of my job involves the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. Usually, I would be lining up catering, coordinating with Resources Mangaement on setting up Poindexter Hall, getting a van to shutttle our writers to and from their hotel, sending maps and directions for how to get to campus,Continue reading “Virtual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium”
Note to Self: Start a Book Club
This morning, I had a thought. And despite my title, it wasn’t about starting a typical book club. As the first day of classes looms and work on syllabi is delayed by work on finding classrooms for face-to-face classes where they can be socially distanced and other unusual tasks that have occupied the summer andContinue reading “Note to Self: Start a Book Club”
Whole Writer Workshops
In our low-residency MFA program, we have developed an alternative to traditional workshops that I like to think of as “Whole Writer Workshops.” These are workshops that follow up on the ones we do during the semester which are more or less traditional, depending on who’s teaching. During our summer full residency, we look atContinue reading “Whole Writer Workshops”
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