September, 2014

What is the title of your class? Novel Immersion What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? I hope they’ll take away a first draft of a complete novel, but if not, I expect they…

What is the title of your class? Brainstorming. What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? What I most hope students will take away is a method of talking themselves through the part of writing…

What is the name of your class? “Reading Graphic Masters” (co-teaching with Greg Stump) What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? A greater appreciation for comics as a form of literature. What sorts of…

What is the title of your class?  The Fiction Workshop What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class?  How to ask the kinds of questions that spur writing further. What sorts of writers will you…

What is the title of your class? (please link your class from the website) Crash Course Rainbow: One-Day Workshop on Color and Poetry What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? I hope students leave…

What is the title of your class? Robin Oliveira and I are teaching a class called, “Taming the Beast: Gaining Perspective on Your Novel Draft.” What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? Perspective. Trying…

What is the title of your class?  Travel Journal in Poems People should take this class if…  They want to write in order to harvest indelible moments, treasure times of being lost, revisit magic places and characters, and savor enigmatic encounters…

What is the title of your class? Feeling It: Creating Emotional Depth in Fiction What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from this class? A better understanding of the various—and most natural—ways to access your characters’ emotions,…

What is the title of your class? Lighting the Long Roots: Making Poems of Home What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class?  Startling, fresh networks into long-forgotten chambers of “home.”  Home not as static…

What is the title of your class?  Finding Your Genre What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? Just like we need to work to find the lives that best represent us, so do we…

What is the title of your class? Close Encounters of the Third-Person Kind What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? A more sophisticated understanding of narrative point-of-view. What sorts of writers will you be…

What is the title of your class? Everyday Poets: An Intro to Contemporary Poems What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? How about “one thing” that’s twofold? I hope we will recognize strategies that…

What is the title of your class?  Polishing Your Children’s Book Manuscript What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class?  A polished draft for submission to a publisher. What sorts of writers will you be…

What is the title of your class? Fiction Critique What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? The ability to see the essential elements and overall structure of a story—what must be there for fiction…

What is the title of your class?  Life in a Teacup What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? Something that will translate into their own writing, whatever they’re working on now—it doesn’t have to…