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1-Day Online Tutorial: Rethinking Workshop

What else can the workshop look like? In this one-hour single session, participants will receive a live tutorial on how the author of Craft in the Real World applies his book’s concepts and strategies in a workshop setting.

Note: Both sections of this tutorial are now full. 

Beginning with a presentation on the key texts and concepts that inform his workshop approach and the step-by-step logistics of carrying out that approach, participants will have the opportunity to submit questions about their own teaching or writing in a Q&A portion of the hour.

Class meetings will be held over video chat, using Zoom accessed from your private class page. While you can use Zoom from your browser, we recommend downloading the desktop client so you have access to all platform features.

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

- Useful ideas and strategies on how to build, lead, and participate in workshops that “free writers from the culturally-regulated boundaries of what it is possible to say and how it is possible to say it”

- All presentation slides

- Essays, articles, and videos relevant to Matthew’s approach

COURSE EXPECTATIONS:

This course is intended to be useful to anyone who participates in writing workshops, whether or not they are teachers themselves. Registered participants will submit questions in class through the platform. Because we hope to respond to as many of your questions as possible, this class is capped. However, it is unlikely that every question can be answered in the hour.

Matthew Salesses

Matthew Salesses is the author of The Sense of Wonder, national bestseller Craft in the Real World, the 2021 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, and two other novels. Adopted from Korea, he has written about adoption, race, and Asian American masculinity in The Best American Essays 2020, NPR’s Code Switch, the New York Times blog Motherlode, and The Guardian, among other media outlets. BuzzFeed has named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. He lives in New York City, where he is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.