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To Keep or Not to Keep: Shifting Models in the Post-Pandemic Workshop
Thursday, February 8, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
This panel explores inclusive innovations in creative writing workshop learned from remote instruction during the pandemic. Since "getting back to normal," an assumption has been made that we can and should return to previous pedagogical models. But should we? Has the traditional workshop model successfully served the growing diversity in classrooms? From varied subject positions and range of courses taught, panelists will elaborate on ways that workshop practices can and have shifted toward equity.
Participants
Sarah A. Chavez is the author of the poetry collections Hands That Break & Scar, like everything else we loved, Halfbeed Helene Navigates the Whole, and All Day, Talking. She teaches creative writing and Latino studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma and serves as poetry coordinator for BoTN.
Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic, recombinant, to make black paper sing, and Kundiman for Kin. A Kundiman and Lambda Fellow, they teach at the University of Washington Bothell and are coeditor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities.
Rochelle Hurt is the author of three books of poetry: The J Girls: A Reality Show; In Which I Play the Runaway; and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.
