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Start a charrette! Daphne Kalotay tells us how

August 3, 2017 at 2:10 PM

In this last month of summer, we’re excited to feature a few blog posts about the writing life, alongside the usual publication announcements.  This essay by Daphne Kalotay (Fiction 1994) is about creating discussion groups that make for meaningful, stimulating, and rich conversations among writers, conversations that also seek to creatively address matters of craft.  Such groups are called charrettes, and […]

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Happy Friday from BU Creative Writing

March 14, 2014 at 4:59 PM

Hello all! Hope your spring breaks have been lovely.  Despite campus being pretty quiet, we kept busy here in CW preparing for the upcoming Annual Faculty Reading and Global Fellowship voyages.  I also had a chance to go to PoemJazz, Literary Jeopardy/a Steve Almond reading, a Ulysses discussion group, and two live comedy shows. Whew!  […]

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Women in Literary Arts (WILA) Conference

August 7, 2009 at 2:32 PM

BU Alumna, Erin Belieu, along with Cate Marvin are planning a Women in Literary Arts Conference, and there is a considerable amount of excitement about the proposed conference, and I think a lot of our grads, and current students may be interested in attending. It’s likely to be in the Boston area, either in late […]

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#7

July 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM

We are now the 7th most active blog on the BU site. Thanks to all of our contributors who have been sending in stories and poems and reviews. We appreciate it!

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Teaching Advice from a Former Teaching Fellow

May 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Teaching your own undergraduate course at BU is a great learning experience. You make your own syllabus i.e. make students read whatever you want, whatever you think is good literature and worth learning from. Hearing their thoughts on the assigned reading is also rewarding. But first you have to make sure that they are actually doing the […]

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