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A Cross Genre Workshop on the Craft of Revision
The writer George Saunders says revision is like straightening up the house before a party—you want everything delightfully in place to let the good times roll. So revision is not an act of craft a writer performs on a text, but an act of affection a writer undertakes for a reader. You want your reader to laugh, cry, feel loved, and spread the love. In this workshop we will generate rough texts in multiple genres, then tinker with our drafts to prepare them as delicious gifts for readers. Working with a “Periodic Table of Elements” for revision, we will practice love for readers we may never meet by strewing the world with gifts from our intuitive hearts and crafty minds.
Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute, and a founding director of Fishtrap. He served as Oregon Poet Laureate 2018-2020, and is the author of some twenty books of poetry and prose, including As the Sky Begins to Change, and and he co-edited The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 U.S. Poets on Their Drafts, Craft, and Process.
Learn more: kimstaffordpoet.com