T114.
The Gift of Attention: The Writing Workshop Moving Forward
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
The workshop model has increasingly come under attack as a tool of power, privilege, racism, and colonialism. Is this pedagogy—the basis of creative-writing curricula for more than eighty years—on the verge of annihilation? This panel uses the idea of workshop apocalypse as both a lifting away of old ideas and anew beginning to look at which elements of the workshop should be salvaged from the wreckage—a subject explored in The Gift of Attention, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Participants
William Lychack is the author, most recently of the novel Cargill Falls. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and on public radio’s This American Life. He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Miles Harvey is coauthor, with William Lychack, of The Gift of Attention, a user’s guide to the creative writing classroom, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. His previous books include The King of Confidence and The Island of Lost Maps. He teaches creative writing at DePaul.
Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, winner of the Believer Book Award, and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches in the University of Pittsburgh writing program.
Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. For her body of work she has received the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
