This Micro-Lesson is provided in anticipation of Carty’s upcoming class, Conscious Revision, which begins on Monday. Register now. Micro-Lesson: “An Octopus of Ice” Description For this lesson, we’ll aim to revise a poem through the use of digression. We’ll look…
I first heard the term fairness in a workshop with Amy Hempel at Columbia. She got it from her teacher, Gordon Lish. In a Vanity Fair article that Hempel wrote about Lish, called “Captain Fiction,” Hempel catches Lish saying, “Don’t…
“In the end, the work I always come back to, the work that seems best remembered and draws the strongest reactions, is the work in which the ‘outside world’ forms a vital partnership with that I narrator.” – Meaghan Daum Sure,…
Narrative Time: Balancing Pace and Plot I. READING It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, “I drank too much last night.” You might have heard it whispered by the parishioners leaving church, heard it from…
The Chekhovian Story I. READING “Everything that has no direct relation to the story must be ruthlessly thrown out. If you write in the first chapter that a rifle hangs on the wall it must without fail fire in the…
What is the title of your class? Politics & Poetry What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? Philip Larkin’s poem “Party Politics” goes like this: I never remember holding a full drink. My first…
What is the title of your class? Nature Writing is Dead; Long Live Nature Writing What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? This class is about shaking up your ideas about how to conceive…
What is the title of your class? Lets not mention the bomb in the room What’s one thing you hope your students will take away from the class? To remain joyful about writing. It is work, but it is happy…
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…