Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy [Hardcover]

With emphasis on practical classroom application, this up-to-date and refreshingly honest collection of essays is a wonderful resource for teaching creative writing. The original and utterly contemporary essays that accurately portray the reality of the teaching experience.With emphasis on practical classroom application, this up-to-date and refreshingly honest collection of essays is a wonderful resource for teaching creative writing.

Joseph Rein is currently the assistant coordinator of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is pursuing his PhD. His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The Wisconsin Review, Concho River Review, Fiction Weekly, Ampersand Review, Twisted Ink, and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.
A former Peace Corps Volunteer, David Yost recently returned from his second trip to Thailand working with Burmese refugees to pursue a PhD in fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His fiction has previously appeared in more than twenty journals, including The Southern Review, The Sun, Pleiades, Witness, and Asia Literary Review, while his critical articles have appeared in MELUS, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and War, Literature, and the Arts.

Introduction

Part I- Laying the Ground Rules
Workshop, Revision, and Grading in the Creative Writing Syllabus

Preventing Tears in Workshop:
Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Criticism
Kristen Gottstein, Georgia State University

Eradicating Reviser's Block:
Bringing Revision to the Foreground
Ashley Cowger, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Confronting the Unavoidable:
Grading Creative Writing
Ashley Wurzbacher, Eastern Washington University

Part II - What Is Appropriate for the Workshop?
Censorship, Trauma, and Memory in the Creative Writing Classroom
Invoking the Muzzle:
Censorship and thli