September 24, 2019
Inviting Invention: A Craft Roundtable with Chen Chen, Ángel García, and Bayo Ojikutu
This post is the eleventh in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
August 23, 2019
It Will Be Empowering: An Interview with David Mura, Author of A Stranger’s Journey; Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
This post is the eighth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
August 9, 2019
We Need Fresh Perspectives: An Interview with Amy Sayre Baptista and Meagan Cass, Series Editors, Craft Chaps
This post is the sixth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
August 5, 2019
The Most Direct Good: An Interview with Matthew Salesses, Author of Craft in the Real World
This post is the fifth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 30, 2019
A Hunger and a Need: An Interview with Neil Aitken and Dao Strom, Founders of De-Canon
This post is the fourth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 12, 2019
So That’s How You Do It: An Interview with Michael Noll, Author of The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
This post is the second in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
May 30, 2019
The Wow Moment: On the Joys of Teaching
June 2009. My classmates and I are gathered in a dimly lit room in Rome, where our instructors, Stephanie Vaughn and Michael Koch, lead Cornell’s annual summer creative writing program […]
April 25, 2019
Playing Dungeons & Dragons With Your Creative Writing Class
When one of my students presented on Dungeons & Dragons in class, he showed us the endless pages he had amassed in character and plot development. Then, it hit me […]
July 27, 2017
Writing the Great American Novel Amid Breast Augmentation Ads
There’s this breast augmentation ad on the subway where this woman’s holding oranges over her chest and looking sad in the lefthand picture and grapefruits over her chest and looking […]
January 31, 2016
Crossing That Line
Yesterday afternoon was a day I’d been anticipating for almost a year — the high school students’ orientation for the joint Writers in Baltimore Schools and Johns Hopkins University Writing […]