By Minkyung Cho, Jiali Wang, and Sasha Stone Interested in guest blogging for the National WRITE Center? See our guidelines by clicking here.
By Jane Nazzal and Sasha Stone Interested in guest blogging for the National WRITE Center? See our guidelines by clicking here.
By Minkyung Cho and Sasha Stone Interested in guest blogging for the National WRITE Center? See our guidelines by clicking here. By Jenell Krishnan
The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom is one part memoir, one part guidebook. Author Felicia Rose Chavez invites all writing instructors to revise the writing workshop in favor of humanizing writing community practices for the 21st century. Chavez’s call to action is inspired by June Jordan 's Poetry for the People, a program dedicated to the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry at university and in communities. Most importantly, Chavez demonstrates strategies for safe workshop spaces that empower writers of color through open discussions of their own work, inviting critique that they see most helpful for their own vision of the text. In her book, Chavez dismantles the silencing judgements of traditional workshop methods. She offers actionable strategies for what workshoppers should do instead. Here, I outline select strategies from the book for facilitators looking to cultivate a better way to workshop.
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