This is a writing workshop focused on revision.  Each student will write two new pieces of creative nonfiction.  We will workshop each piece twice.  Then, after intense deliberation, each of you will choose one of these two essays to workshop a third time and then, after revising it a fourth time, you will send it out at the end of the semester to six literary magazines.

The goal of the course is to push you to produce more than you thought you could, to break down what Jane Smiley calls “evasion strategies.”