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Event Title: The Novella Workshop: Advocating an Alternative MFA Apprenticeship ModelType of Event: PedagogyEvent Description: A frequent misgiving about workshop classes in fiction—whether taught at the undergraduate or graduate level, at writers’ conferences or elsewhere—is the inevitable focus on the short story or, begrudgingly, on single chapters from novels-in-progress. It’s time to consider an alternative. Two professors and three graduate students share their experiences teaching, writing, and reading novellas as well as their reasons for embracing a form they find commodious, malleable, and downright subversive.Statement of Merit: Workshops are the focus and fulcrum of creative writing programs, but the format of workshop classes in fiction has gone largely unexamined in recent years. Not all of us are short story writers. Two professors will describe and advocate for an alternative: the novella workshop. Graduate students undertaking--and publishing--novellas will talk about their experiences and discuss why ethnically diverse authors are drawn to the form.Event Organizer: Sharon Oard WarnerSharon Oard Warner is Professor Emerita of English at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Co-Chair for the D. H. Lawrence Ranch Initiatives. She has published four books, the most recent being the novel, Sophie's House of Cards. Her craft book, Writing the Novella, is forthcoming from UNM Press.Moderator: Clancy McGilliganClancy McGilligan’s novella History of an Executioner won the 2019 Novella Prize from Miami University Press. His fiction has appeared in Slice Magazine, Santa Monica Review, Wigleaf and elsewhere. He’s a PhD candidate at Florida State University and Reviews/Interviews Editor at Split Lip Magazine.Participants:Douglas Trevor is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.Heather Johnson is a Dine woman from the Navajo Nation and an MFA student in the University of New Mexico's Creative Writing Program. She has written a novella, Jane Smith, and is working on a memoir and a novel, Ash. Her experience as a CPS social worker and victim advocate informs her writing.Cherline Bazile is enrolled in the MFA in Prose at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She graduated from Harvard University where her novella won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize. Cherline is a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. She is at work on her debut novel. ................
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