As I mentioned last week, I am teaching a class in short-story writing this semester entitled Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision. This week’s class was relatively uneventful, from an outside perspective. If you had shown up in the middle of it, you would have seen five students (and one dashingly handsome teacher) [...]
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Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision
January 29, 2008 – 08:00 am
Last night, I began teaching my first college-level class as part of my graduate program’s degree requirements. I’m running a small workshop in short-story writing entitled, “Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision.” I’ve got five undergraduate students and one post-grad student who will be participating in the class over the Internet. They’ll each [...]
Brain Drain
July 20, 2006 – 11:59 am
Something strange is afoot in the town where I grew up. The Swampscott Reporter has revealed that “just over 25 percent” of all the teachers at the high school are leaving this Fall. Almost all of them are taking jobs someplace else in Massachusetts.
In a letter to the editor, two of the teachers (the only [...]
