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Write & Revise Workshop
All Levels. Revision is one of the most important skills a writer must learn. As E.B. White said, “The best writing is rewriting.” In this revision workshop, students will submit one piece two times: once in the original version, once in the revised version. Students will come away from each workshop with concrete advice on how to improve their piece, whether it be a story, an essay, or a chapter of a novel.
Instructor: Ruth Joffre
Class Type: 8 Sessions
ProseStart Date: 05/17/2017
End Date: 07/05/2017
Days of the Week: Wednesday
Time: 7:10 PM – 9:10 PM
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 12
$337.50
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Ruth Joffre
Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast (forthcoming Grove Atlantic 2018). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, The Masters Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Copper Nickel. Her book reviews have been published in The Rumpus, The Millions, Kenyon Review Online, and Colorado Review. She lives in Seattle.
Teaching Philosophy: I believe every piece of literature is an emotional education. A story like Mavis Gallant's "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street," for instance, requires us not only to understand the inner workings of its characters' psyches but to become the kind of people who are capable of feeling as they feel and thinking as they think. In this way, we learn to feel sympathy for the socially awkward, love for the romantically jilted, and sorrow for the painfully ambitious. When we can't expand our minds this way, our writing and our reading suffers.
Writers I return to: Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, Mavis Gallant, W. G. Sebald, Elizabeth Strout, Maggie Nelson, Anita Brookner, Penelope Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Richard Yates, Elizabeth McCracken, and James Baldwin, to name a few.
Favorite writing advice: Hands down, this piece of advice from Benjamin Percy: "Keep hammering."