I just got back from AWP (okay, back is a strong word considering it was located here in Chicago) and it was just as energizing, intimidating, desperate, and comforting as usual. I’ll post specific responses to panels and whatnot over the next few days, but here’s a reflective tidbit to get you started: Peggy Shumaker [...]
Last Friday, as part of an on-going program for professional development, made possible by a shiny new departmental budget, DePaul University’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Department hosted Andrea Lunsford, author of (among other things) The St. Martin’s Handbook for Writing. I’ve used the SMH for about six years now (editions four through six are on [...]
I’ve now returned from Calvin Festival of Faith in Writing held in Grand Rapids Michigan, which I found to be a pleasant little town about the size of Evansville, Indiana, only without the funny smell and economic desperation. It’s possible, though, that my impression of Grand Rapids was altered by its seventy degree outside temperatures [...]
For any parties interested, let it be known that on the back end of this week I will be attending the Calvin Festival of Faith in Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There is some pleasant anticipation for this little trip, but not in the same way that going to the AWP conference [...]
After a lengthy hiatus, owing mostly to end of the term papers it is time for an update from the now month-past AWP convention in New York City. First of all, New York wasn’t nearly the daunting experience I expected—and while my Brooklyn host assured me that there was indeed a scam around every corner, [...]
In just under one week my wife and I will be heading to New York for the annual AWP convention. As you might imagine, this is the source of two very distinct types of anxiety. The first type, as anyone who has ever been there can attest, is the anxiety over going to New York [...]
Alison Lurie’s lecture, which I almost didn’t attend on account of fatigue–similar to the kind you might feel from so many Sewanee updates–was a basically insightful lecture focusing on an often neglected element of fiction: setting. I admit that I approached this topic cautiously. Some of my early fiction was overly reliant on setting, using [...]
And we’ve returned after a brief hiatus! Sorry about the mild delay in posting. I’ve been back from Sewanee for two weeks, and all that real life stuff I’d been neglecting (household chores; work that results in income; connection with loved ones, etc) caught up with me. But we now return to regularly scheduled programming. [...]
Dick Bausch (I had him for workshop and sang off-key Ray Charles with him on a Tennessee front porch at two in the morning, which I assume means I can call him Dick) gave a craft lecture on Sunday, July 22 that he claimed “would focus on the life of writing, as much as on [...]
31 Jul 2007 On July 23 the Sewanee Writers conference hosted another set of editors–those from Blackbird, Southwest Review, New Criteria, Kenyon Review, and Epoch. Edward Hower, who works with Epoch was ostensibly the panel’s moderator, but in reality this was a group effort. Rather than embellishing questions one by one, I decided to break [...]
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