At the Thin Air event I attended at the University of Winnipeg, poet-luminaries Sina Queryas and George Murray talked about creating on-line communities to a professor-dotted room while a group of students waited outside for the panel to finish so they could come in and read from their own work.…
Read MoreThis past week I took a fairly enjoyable class in "Instructional Methods" along with 19 other instructors, mostly from Red River College. We spent most of the week listening to each other teach. We were a class of guinea pigs, testing out our colleagues' lessons. I now know only a…
Read MoreAudio content at Aqua Books you should check out. This page has several Red River creative writing connections--recordings of readings by last year's first-year students in Sally Ito's class, by the students from last year's writing retreat, and even one by me back in December.
Read MoreAfter circling umpteen incorrectly swapped instances of "your" and "you're" in my first-year students' screenplays recently, I engaged in water-cooler ranting with other instructors about spelling. Now, creative writing may not be the class where spelling counts the most, but don't think that I don't notice. Oh, I notice. As…
Read MoreThe Gemini Unjournal: a little red river writing hood is now live. For the next two months, students in my workshops will be choosing, editing, and posting each others' work on this newly minted page. I'm hoping to expand the mandate of the Unjournal to including a wider variety of…
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