Synopsis
We insist on imitating an 80-year-old model of instruction, originally developed at the University of Iowa in 1936 and replicated as sacrosanct. The time for tangible change is now.
The writing workshop model is the most widely-used model of writing instruction in the United States, used in high schools, colleges, and graduate programs.
According to Poets & Writers, there are well over two hundred MFA programs in the United States.
There is a growing discussion among writers of color that a color-blind approach to writing workshop can serve to marginalize and silences their voices.
Movements like #WeNeedDiverseBooks, and challenges in a publishing industry that is still predominantly white, highlight the urgency of change in publishing. Pedagogical approaches that center the voices of marginalized people and empower them to write authentic stories are an important contribution.
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À propos de l?auteur
Felicia Rose Chavez is a digital storyteller with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa. An award-winning educator, Felicia served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a feminist webzine for high school students. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean 's Fellowship, and a Riley Scholar Fellowship. She is a co-editor, with Willie Perdomo and José Olivarez, of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, and her work has been featured in the Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, The Normal School, and Brevity, among others.
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