WORKSHOP Stories now Posted, look to your left for the link

To retrieve stories for workshops, please look the link under "Stories for Workshop."
There are THREE stories for Tuesday.
Have a great weekend!

Terry McMillan tomorrow night!

Terry McMillan at U of M Conference

The Blueprint of a Woman
March 25th & 26th

Keynote Speaker Terry McMillan
Friday, 7pm
U Of M Rose Theater

Deshana Cathey's story, "Judgement Day" for 03/24 copy and paste link below https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=19sXxNSvwTBDeqhSpVU1XpxV22om36MqcY-tYPMPq-5uV67l9YYA1LoYYRt1b&hl=en

Rachel Gann's story, "Bus Stop Therapy" for workshop 03/24, cut and paste this link https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1zettV5TvWo3nc9JS4HM60PJucP-V59ho1PTXgOv8MZ4KEZ3509HoBY6CSjHQ&hl=en

Ashton Nolen's story,"The Wrong Kind of Love" for Workshop 03/22

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1pezWXI5VsTv0yV3oK6SS8dbENv2ipLuedIHKyZl_kNavfK2FdKKekFMw6Ica&hl=en

Question to ask of the WORKSHOP story and Your OWN Story

There will be two stories workshopped on Thursday. Hopefully we'll all receive stories from Shequita and Alex via ecourseware.

Along with the Guidelines outlining Elements of Fiction, here are some direct questions that will help you write a 1/2 to full page to your peer about their story.

1, Whose story is it? How does your story reflect this? Is the point of view right for the story?

2, What does the main character want? Where is this indicated in the story? What is the conflict?

3, Does the character have an inner life?

4, Does the story both show and tell, especially toward the end of the story?

5, Is the beginning sentence the best way or place to start the story?

6, Does the dialogue serve the story well and move the plot along?

7, What about that ending? leave you hanging? tied up in a bow? are you heartbroken?

You don't need to answer every one of those for your comments but ask them all of the story and then write your reader response.

Looking forward to workshopping with you all!

Reading by Poet Albert Goldbarth, tomorrow night, March 16th!

The University of Memphis’ River City Writers Series will welcome poet and essayist Albert Goldbarth for two events on Wednesday, March 16. He will conduct an interview at 10:30 a.m. in Patterson Hall, Room 456, and read from his work at 8 p.m. in the University Center Bluff Room. Both events are free and open to the public.

Percival Everett Reading tonight - 7pm at Rhodes Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall

Blount Auditorium, Buckman HallBuckman Hall

Hope to see you there!!!!

The Rhodes College Department of English Creative Writing Lecture Series presents a reading by internationally acclaimed novelist Percival EverettPercival Everett Thursday, 2011Thursday, March 10th, 2011 7:pm7:00 pm Blount Auditorium, Buckman HallBuckman Hall

Dorothy Allison, Mid-term Story due, enjoy Spring break!

What a lively and thought-provoking discussion today. Thanks to all of you who participated! I'd love to hear more of your thoughts and ideas and would be grateful if you blogged about the issue of race in Memphis.
Thanks to Percival Everett for such a charged story!

1, Please come out to see Dorothy Allison tomorrow evening at University Centre, 8pm. Extra credit!

2, If you haven't handed in your story for the midterm, please bring it to class on Thursday. There won't be an official class but I'll be there to talk to students who need help with their writing or who want a conference.

3, Have a great Spring Break!

Dorothy Allison: Reading, March 2 at 8pm, University Center Bluff Room

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form."
— Dorothy Allison

http://memphis.edu/mediaroom/releases/feb11/allison.htm