Resources for Teachers

 

Fiction Handouts

"Revising Your Work: A Checklist for Character & Conflict" (craft essay) The Writer

Craft Exercises for 321: Intermediate Fiction Writing

Revision Analysis & Exercises

Small Group Workshop

The Autobiographical Impulse and the Interesting Mistake

Three Ideas From David Mamet's On Directing Film

 

  

  

 

Creative Nonfiction Handouts

"The Treadmill Journal"  (craft essay) The Writer

"A Memoir is a Reckoning " (craft essay) The Writer

"Breaking the Conventions of Memoir"  (craft essay)
The Writer

The Peer Response 

Revising for the Middle Draft

The Reading Response

Sample Reading Response:  Susanna Kaysen's Girl,  Interrupted

Exercises from Marisa Clark's 323: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction

Exercises for 223: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction