Creative Writing Workshop

Author : Matthew Salesses
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226812
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craft in the Real World written by Matthew Salesses and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review). The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing—including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability—and aspects of workshop—including the silenced writer and the imagined reader—Matthew Salesses asks questions to invigorate these familiar concepts. He upends Western notions of how a story must progress. How can we rethink craft, and the teaching of it, to better reach writers with diverse backgrounds? How can we invite diverse storytelling traditions into literary spaces? Drawing from examples including One Thousand and One Nights, Curious George, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, and the Asian American classic No-No Boy, Salesses asks us to reimagine craft and the workshop. In the pages of exercises included here, teachers will find suggestions for building syllabi, grading, and introducing new methods to the classroom; students will find revision and editing guidance, as well as a new lens for reading their work. Salesses shows that we need to interrogate the lack of diversity at the core of published fiction: how we teach and write it. After all, as he reminds us, "When we write fiction, we write the world."

Author : Gotham Writers' Workshop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781408101315
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Fiction written by Gotham Writers' Workshop and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, literature and biography.

Author : Pat Boran
Publisher : Salmon Poetry
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable Creative Writing Workshop written by Pat Boran and published by Salmon Poetry. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book offers creative writing suggestions for poets and fiction writers and also offers advice from two dozen Irish and international poets, writers, and playwrights.

Author : Dianne Donnelly
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? written by Dianne Donnelly and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2010 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the effectiveness of the writing workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, searching beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to consider alternative pedagogical models. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the contributors' consideration of non-normative pedagogies. This book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing.

Author : Christopher Kempf
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421443570
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craft Class written by Christopher Kempf and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental course in playwriting he had been planning with former students at Harvard and Radcliffe. This was the first time that term, now ubiquitous, was used in the context of creative writing pedagogy. Today, the MFA (master of fine arts) industry is a booming one, with more than 200 programs and thousands of residencies and conferences for aspiring writers nationwide. Almost all of these offerings operate on the workshop model. In Craft Class, Christopher Kempf argues that the primary institutional form of creative writing studies, the workshop, has remained invisible before our scholarly eyes. While Baker and others marshaled craft toward economic critique, craft pedagogies consolidated the authority of elite educational institutions as the MFA industry grew. Transcoding professional-managerial soft skills—linguistic facility, social and emotional discernment, symbolic fluency—in the language of manual labor, the workshop nostalgically invokes practices that the university itself has rendered obsolete. The workshop poem or short story thus shares discursive space with the craft IPA or hand-loomed Pottery Barn rug—a space in which one economic practice rewrites itself in the language of another, just as right-wing corporatism continuously rewrites itself in the language of populism. Delineating an arc that extends from Boston's fin de siècle Society of Arts and Crafts through 1930s proletarian workshops to the pedagogies of Black Mountain College and the postwar MFA, Craft Class reveals how present-day creative writing restructures transhistorical questions of labor, education, and aesthetic and economic production. With the rise of the workshop in American culture, Kempf shows, manual and mental labor have been welded together like steel plates. What fissures does that weld seal shut? And on whose behalf does the poet punch in?

Author : Carol Bly
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385499191
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Writers' Workshop written by Carol Bly and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new approach to teaching and writing creative nonfiction from veteran teacher and critically acclaimed author Carol Bly. Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community or MFA “workshops” or, at the high-school level, “peer review.” In Beyond the Writers' Workshop Carol Bly presents an alternative. She believes that workshopping’s tendency to engage in wry scorn and pay exaggerated attention to technical details, causes apprentice writers, consciously or unconsciously, to modify their most passionate work. Inspired by a philosophy of individuality and moral rigor, Bly combines ideas and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with the traditional teaching of fresh metaphor, salient dialogue, lively pace, and analysis of other literary work in her pioneering new approach. She also includes exercises and examples in an extensive practical appendix.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917911
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book. Here you'll find: The fundamental elements of fiction craft-character, plot, point of view, etc.-explained clearly and completely - Key concepts illustrated with passages from great works of fiction - The complete text of "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver-a masterpiece of contemporary short fiction that is analyzed throughout the book - Exercises that let you immediately apply what you learn to your own writing. Written by Gotham Writers' Workshop expert instructors and edited by Dean of Faculty Alexander Steele, Writing Fiction offers the same methods and exercises that have earned the school international acclaim. Once you've read-and written-your way through this book, you'll have a command of craft that will enable you to turn your ideas into effective short stories and novels. You will be a writer. Gotham Writers' Workshop is America's leading private creative writing school, offering classes in New York City and on the web at WritingClasses.com. The school's interactive online classes, selected "Best of the Web" by Forbes, have attracted thousands of aspiring writers from across the United States and more than sixty countries.

Author : Ivy Page
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781626613843
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing Workshop (First Edition) written by Ivy Page and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Maybury
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers' Workshop written by Barry Maybury and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Con air by Shaun Wallbank; The farm was blowing away by William Bignell; My first bully by Scott Lovell; Grogan the bogan by Owen Reynolds; A letter on the subject of life after school by Richard Charlton; When my mother cried in the kitchen by Emma Catchpole; Days of our lives by Belinda Moxon; The story book place by Adam Smith; The art of wooing by Guy Russell; The Thompsons by Erin Martin; Out of the frying pan by Oscar Potter; The case of the missing pussy by Jamie McLoughlin; Jamie and Tom by Adoni Astrinakis; Jaci by Michael Gozzi; Watch for the hunter by Andrew McCann; Untitled by Stuart Ecob; Fading face of a burning past by Bronwyn Wilson; Come and gone by Sam Nichols; Wind dancer by Ben Robinson; The new RSA by Brett Hasell; Jeremy and the Fish by Henry Nichols.

Author : Bill Vincent
Publisher : RWG Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing Workshop written by Bill Vincent and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a journey of creativity and imagination with "Creative Writing Workshop: Ignite Your Imagination" by Bill Vincent. In this enlightening guide, Vincent shares the fundamental principles of successful writing, distilled into four simple questions: How, Where, What, and When. Through engaging exercises and insightful prompts, readers will uncover the keys to unlocking their creative potential. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned writer, this workshop invites you to explore the vast universe of storytelling and discover the writer within. With a warm "Bonjour" to all participants, Vincent creates a welcoming atmosphere where writing becomes not just a skill, but a joyous adventure. From letters to friends, travel diaries, to modern communication platforms, every aspect of life holds inspiration for aspiring writers. Join the workshop and embark on a transformative journey to unleash your imagination.