This list is for people who have accepted a job offer and are preparing for the fall semester to start. It’s basically a checklist of things to think about as the start-date approaches…… Read More Preparing for a Tenure Track Poetry Job to Begin
“Hermit crabs” borrow the form of a non-literary text and use that form as a “shell” in which to tell a story. … Read More A List of Literary Hermit Crab Shell Forms
I specifically focus in this post on how to ask for a letter of recommendation for an MFA program, creative writing residency, writing scholarship, or other creative writing endeavor. However, I think that a lot of this advice applies to people seeking letters of recommendation for all kinds of things. The point of a letter… Read More How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation
How do you give feedback to another poet? It’s a good question and something that students often ask about. How do you give feedback while respecting the poet’s original vision? How do you give feedback if you find something in the poem troubling, negatively biased, or just “off”? How do you give feedback that encourages… Read More How to Give Feedback on a Poem
I thought I’d start a new series of blog posts that address questions I often hear asked in writing classes and workshops. Many of the same questions come up over and over because, I think, there are a lot of unwritten processes and norms in the literary publishing world. From talking to many writers over… Read More Finding Literary Journals to Publish Your Poetry
The recording of my virtual workshop on the poetic line is now available. … Read More “The Poet and The Line” Workshop Recording is Now Available
Here are some of the projects I’ve taken on this year as a writing coach and independent teacher: … Read More How I Help Writers: My First Year of Writing Coaching
This class focuses on writing about how we spend our working lives. Often, the funniest—and most poignant—stories we tell our friends are about the jobs we’ve done to make money. But there are also stories to be told about our unpaid work: emotional labor, the caretaking of friends and family, housework, and “adulting.” Over the… Read More Online Writing Class – In the Breakroom: Micro-Memoirists Write about Work, June-July 2021
This course focuses on the theme of “repair” as subject matter and metaphor. Over the course of five weeks, we will read and write work that grapples with questions of fixing, healing, mending, rebuilding, restoration, and reconciliation. Some of the best memoirs ask questions that do not have clear answers. We will consider what has… Read More Online Writing Class: Micro-Memoirists Repair, March-April 2021
Despite everything, I was able to continue my writing and publishing practice. I clocked 108 rejections this year. … Read More What I Published in 2020
Freesia McKee 