S115. On Grading the Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century

Room 006B, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

This panel will focus on approaches to grading the creative writing workshop. We’ll examine the effects grades have on student work and present practices that can help create equity, inclusion, and risk-taking in the classroom. Our panelists will discuss grading across the spectrum, from graduate workshops to introductory general education workshops. We’ll share perspectives from small liberal arts colleges to HBCUs to large state universities and points in between from across the county.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Grading_the_Creative_Writing_Workshop_in_the_21st_Century_Panel_Outline.docx
Supplemental Document 1: Ethics_of_Grading.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Barney T. Haney teaches English at the University of Indianapolis, where he is co-chair of the Kellogg Writers Series. Winner of the Chris O'Malley Fiction Prize, his work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Mid-American Review, Marathon Literary Review, and Barely South Review, among others.

Shonda Buchanan is the author of Black Indian, a tale of a mixed race Midwest family caught in bi-ethnic and tri-ethnic identity crises, and an award-winning poet and educator. Buchanan is editor of Harriet Tubman Press. She teaches creative writing and composition at Loyola Marymount University and Otis College.

Jameelah Lang is the graduate writing specialist at UMKC. Her fiction appears in Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and Witness. She has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Conference, VCCA, and Hub City Writers Project. She's a board member for Radius of Arab American Writers.

Christopher Coake is the author of the novel You Came Back and the story collection We're in Trouble, for which he won the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. In 2006 he was named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta. He teaches and directs the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections—Fruit; Paradise, Indiana; and The Year We Studied Women. Coeditor of The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice, he is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco.

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