I’ve worked with graduate students for the better part of a couple years now. Their topics varied from nursing home justice to rooting out the glitches in quantum computers. And I’ve learned one unifying principle during that time: scholars don’t know how to write. Most scholarly papers and articles look like a letter sludge, a … Continue reading »
Everybody knows that good writing takes good reading. To make up for the un-writing I am doing, I am reading many many books, all by women.
To continue the thread of Amy’s post re: writing prompts from our writing group, here are some flotsam & some jetsam. As an imagist poet, the series of concrete image writing prompts we utilized throughout the summer were not only handy, but miraculous: 5 concrete images on the topic “Friday Night” (I did more than … Continue reading »
Involving crazy writing prompts, which you are welcome to steal. We’d love it if you’d share. Over the summer, our writing group, Redaction!–which is a collaborative community space where anyone can share their writing and receive thoughtful critique–took a more experimental turn. Instead of bringing in pieces of writing, we got together and wrote short … Continue reading »
Eben Bruce Fenton grew up with animals and one sister who still wants a tiny bluish box to translate the yellow dog’s tremulous whimpers. Eben reads prose to ignore the antic warnings. As penance he labors bent across minutia-based fiction in a lightless downstairs apartment overseen by two black eyed and quiet Daschunds. He speaks … Continue reading »
