Tag: Poetry

"Invitation to the Voyages" is an exercise I use to teach imagery. It can be adapted for any writing genre. 

Incorporating research into creative nonfiction essays helps bring the narrative to life but can be difficult to do. Below you'll find a collection of...

Writing about place is more than writing about a vacation or a childhood home. There are certain tensions evident in all spaces when we...

If you're looking for a way to encourage your creative writing students to be more concise, try this simple concision handout.       Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash    

A great piece of advice for any writer is to read as much as possible. If one wants to write novels, reading great novels...

Those of us who teach Creative Writing usually have the luxury that our students actively choose to be in the class. When they come...

To begin: I have students call out a list of abstractions. Usually we end up with some variation on the following: fear sadness joy depression ...

A handout covering the basics of submitting to literary magazines: where to submit, cover letters, terminology, and mistakes to avoid.

There’s a lot of talk in teaching circles about feedback—how to give an appropriate amount that doesn’t overwhelm the student (or the teacher’s workload) and balances praise and constructive criticism. Finding praise is, of course, characterized by its very verb as the part where you have to strain yourself, what you include to soften the blow your critique.

Silence in the classroom can be awkward, especially when your students are tasked with discussing their peers’ work in a creative writing workshop. I’ve found...