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A Brief History of an Ongoing Series: a guest post by Peter Turchi
Editor’s note: As part of our focus on teaching this month, we’re delighted to present this guest post by Peter Turchi. Nearly twenty years ago, when I became director of the Warren Wilson College MFA...
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Under the Influence… of Stanley Plumly
When I was an MFA student at the University of Maryland, Stanley Plumly said two things about my poetry that have stuck with me and shaped not only how I think about my writing process but also how I...
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Under the Influence… of Fred Chappell
North Carolina’s esteemed novelist, short story writer, teacher, and former poet laureate Fred Chappell came along at a critical moment in my writing life: when I was starting to hear voices. Trained...
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Tastes Like Poetry: a guest post by Kevin Haworth
Editor’s note: As part of our focus on teaching this month, we’re delighted to present this guest post by Kevin Haworth. People tell me that I am a poetic writer. My response to this characterization...
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Writer as Athlete – Teacher as Coach
I’ve always loved the connotations of the word workshop. There’s refinement in a seminar and hierarchy in a master-class, but a workshop brings to mind sawdust and power tools. A bunch of unshaven...
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Under the Influence… of Sands Hall
Image via author websiteImmersed in a 9-to-5, year-round office job since early 2007, I haven’t led a fiction workshop for some time. But if I should inhabit that particular teaching role again, I’d...
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Again and again: Reinventing the workshop the chiastic way
Like many people, my desire to reinvent the workshop started with the very first workshop I was in. This wasn’t because of the methods by which we discussed our stories, but rather, because of one...
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Serving the Story: An Interview with Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch, © Mark Weber Richard Bausch is an exacting writer. With precise language that lends a breathtaking verisimilitude to his fiction, Bausch lays the groundwork in which settings and...
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Teaching Intersections: Poetry for the Fiction Writer
When I started teaching at Chapman University several years ago, the MFA program had been focused almost exclusively on fiction in recent years. I found myself, on the first day of class, in a room of...
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Architectures like Underground Cities: Part IV of an Interview with Julianna...
I came across Roxane Gay’s 2012 interview with Julianna Baggott in The Rumpus in the fall of 2013. In it, Baggott described her use of not one but two pseudonyms as an author (Bridget Asher and N.E....
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