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Vision & Re-Vision: Teaching Revision in University & Community Workshops
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
The revision process can feel mysterious, even terrifying, to new writers. Panelists who write in multiple genres and employ a variety of teaching strategies will ask questions of each other and the audience, as they work toward new teaching models. How can we encourage students to identify their work’s aesthetic and rhetorical purpose and revise toward it? How do we encourage play—the practice of invention and reinvention—as a route to discovery, given the workshop’s time constraints?
Participants
Sarah Browning teaches workshops with Writers in Progress. She is cofounder and for ten years was executive director of Split This Rock. Author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden, she received an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Rutgers University Camden.
Maya Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love. She cofounded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall is an assistant professor at Adelphi University and is an editor for Haymarket Books.
Matthew Salesses is an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University. He is the author of bestsellers The Hundred-Year Flood and Craft in the Real World; the PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear; and, most recently, The Sense of Wonder. He was adopted from Korea.
Allison Joseph is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is the author of several books and chapbooks of poems, is the director of the SIUC MFA Program, and serves as editor and poetry editor for Crab Orchard Review.
Sara Henning is the author of View from True North (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018) and Terra Incognita (Ohio University Press, 2022). Her forthcoming collection of poems, Burn, is a Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection. She is an assistant professor at Marshall University.
