Crafting the Course: Designing and Delivering Creative Writing Classes for Adults

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Crafting the Course is a pedagogical workshop for those new to teaching creative writing, and completion of the workshop prepares participants to design and deliver their own creative writing courses. From inception to course arc, options for different workshop formats/models, and grading/assessment, Crafting the Course aims to help those in higher education and those outside of it create informed and thoughtful classes. Each two-hour meeting includes open discussion, brief lectures, generative prompts related to course creation and pedagogy, as well as additional, recommended readings.



Gwendolyn Paradice is the author of the short story collection More Enduring for Having Been Broken (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 The Hudson Prize, & the co-authored chapbook Carnival Bound (or, please unwrap me) (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2020). Their work has appeared in Booth, Zone 3, ANMLY, Tin House Online, The Journal of American Folklore, & others. Gwendolyn is a queer, disabled, enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, & their prose often explores form and personal identity. They are currently an Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Murray State University where they direct the Creative Writing Program."
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