Revisions and workshop
Optional lesson: villanelle
Workshop: Jack, Samantha, Lina, Jake.
This week we will finish, workshop, and revise the pieces for the lit mag and for the reading. There will an extra workshop so that everyone has ample opportunity to receive feedback. I encourage you to send you work to me, Anna, and/or Linnea, to get our feedback.
By lunch today, please email me:
truth, lie, best moment, worst moment, glad I am, wish I were. You can have these be short and simple or longer and complex. They can be funny or serious-- whatever you want.
For the reading:
Each person will have about five minutes to read. This will be 4-5 pages double-spaced. You may choose anything that you wrote or worked on this summer: prose, poetry, drama (one-acts and monologues). Also note that you can read a combination, for example: a poem, a piece of flash fiction, and an excerpt from a novella.
For the lit mag:
2-5 pieces. If you are submitting poetry and/or flash fiction, I would like you to put in more pieces. If you are submitting all or mostly prose, it's fine to put in fewer.
Author's Bio: please write up a little blurb about yourself.
Here are some examples. My personal favorite in #20.
Here are some more examples. If you scroll down, you will see a "tag line" and an "extensive bio." You can do either. I would like you to limit the amount of specific information (geography, school name, etc.) and speak in more general terms.
