Open House
Conversations with Writers About Community
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publishing:1st Nov '25
£16.00
This title is due to be published on 1st November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An ideal supplemental text for courses in creative writing, professional development, leadership studies, management studies, and publishing, with strategies for leadership- and community-building within academia and beyond its boundaries.
This book offers a practical guide to building community, fostering collaboration, and inspiring generosity through the creative arts. This collection of original essays features an accomplished roster of contributors with backgrounds in diverse fields, including literary translation, magazine editing, publishing, higher education, and curriculum design. By featuring successful writers who represent such a wide range of skillsets and career paths, this book helps students envision themselves as leaders in the university and well beyond its boundaries.
In a cultural moment where graduates often seek meaningful careers outside of academia, this essay collection also offers an introduction to alt-ac career paths and the unique opportunities for effecting social change in these roles. Focusing on techniques that have broad applications for high school teachers, nonprofit leaders, community outreach organizations, and college classrooms, each chapter includes an original essay from a contemporary writer, editor, or nonprofit leader in the arts, culminating in a set of exercises for individuals and groups, which focus on empathy, citizenship, and community stewardship.
Contributors include Traci Brimhall, Chris Campanioni, Wendy Chen, Kristina Marie Darling, Ming Lauren Holden, John James, Dean Rader, and Zach Savich.
"This is an exciting collection of essays aimed at teachers, students and writers of poetry in general who want to broaden their connection with others—other practitioners, other teachers, others who find themselves minorities in the classroom. Collaboration is explored here in many of its forms—collaboration between writers, of course, but also publishing as collaboration, teaching as collaboration, even working towards social justice as collaboration.
Besides being inspiring, these essays provide actual helpful advice and models of how to create community through collaboration—actual assignments you can do, and use in classrooms. Editor and contributor Kristina Marie Darling has put together a useful, timely and uplifting call to reach out to others, on the page and in the academy."
* Matthew Rohrer, author of Army of Giants *
ISBN: 9781961209374
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
128 pages