Why Super Mario Bros. Will Affect the New Generation of Writers
A few years ago I came across a story of Tom Bissell’s in Best American Short Stories 2005. I can’t remember everything about “Death Defiers”, but I’m pretty sure it involved an American...
View ArticleThoughts on the Short Story Survey
“Do people still care about short fiction?” That’s a redundant, pointless question for the most part, but I find it interesting that the dominant form of literary fiction consumed in this country is...
View ArticleWolf Writers Talk Contra III: The Alien Wars
“The grisly parade of the spectre years trooped through his brain. Suddenly, he saw that his life had been channelled by a series of accidents: a mad Rebel singing of Armageddon, the sound of a bugle...
View ArticleWhat Are You Teaching In Workshop?: O Captain, My Captain!
I’ve been reading Cathy Day’s blog lately and all her insightful posts about her undergrad fiction workshop as they went through NaNoWriMo, and the whole time I’ve wondered why more fiction teachers...
View ArticleHere’s Everything I’ve Recommended to Fiction Students So Far This Semester
So, I’m running this advanced fiction workshop and it’s all like woah. One thing I like to do in a classroom setting like this is meet individually with every student after they workshop. I remember...
View ArticleFall 2011 Fiction Recommendations
One of my favorite aspects of teaching is recommending fiction to students. There’s almost nothing better than reading a student story and thinking, “This person absolutely needs to read Lorrie...
View ArticleCourse Sequences
Over the last month or so, I’ve tried really hard to blow up my workshop syllabus. Things were going really well, and I wasn’t motivated out of some fear that I wasn’t getting through to the students....
View ArticleIntro to Creative Writing Spring 2013 Syllabus
English 21844 270-01 Intro to Creative Writing MWF 10:00-10:50am University of Indianapolis Assistant Professor Salvatore Pane E-mail: panes@uindy.edu Credits: 3.0 Syllabus Required Materials On...
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