Creative Writing | Marginalia

So you’ve received your acceptance letter, and you’re beaming. I know I was. I put it on the refrigerator and called my mom. I was ecs..

On my flight home from Los Angeles this weekend, I was unplugged from the internet and my phone for the first time in my writing histo..

This is not going to be the recap. Though, I should, in the next post, offer ya’ll a recap. But this is about the final day and how I ..

Boston was a beautiful location for the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). The weather, though, was a little le..

So, you got accepted into Columbia’s Creative Writing – Fiction MFA program. What do you do now?

First, congratulations! It’s a hug..

On Tuesday March 5th, the day of our little snowstorm, my Illustrated Victorian Poetry class made our way down Wabash, all the way to ..

I’m gearing up for AWP 2013 in Boston, and I can’t wait! I’ve never been to Boston and AWP is my favorite time of year. I blogged last..

Writer’s Block is something I thought I didn’t believe in, and then I put off writing this blog post. In fact, I don’t know how to acc..

As a Graduate Student Instructor teaching in the First-Year Writing Program, I require that my students attend at least one session at..