Giving Feedback

I am the managing editor of an on-campus literary magazine here at Northwestern, and we’ve just finished accepting submissions for our spring issue. It’s the first issue under our new leadership, so we’re all trying to figure out what exactly we want to do with the magazine. One conversation we recently had was whether to … Continue reading »

Lessons on an Effective Workshop

The fiction class I am in this quarter is the seventh workshop group I have been in since I started learning writer at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio in 2007. I remember when I first had a story workshopped, I was nearly shaking with nerves. I might as well have been bearing my soul for … Continue reading »