Residency Handouts

Handouts will be posted before the residency if they are provided by the instructor, otherwise, they will be added to this section after the seminar. Presentation slides will be posted after each seminar only if the instructor gives consent to share. All handouts will be available until the last day of the Winter/Spring 2022 term.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

8:00-9:30 am PT, New Student Orientation, Part I

10:00-11:30 am PT, New Student Orientation, Part II

11:15 am-12:00 pm PT, Library Orientation, with Lisa Lepore and Asa Wilder

2:30-4:00 pm PT, Arts, Culture, & Society I: The Writer at Work—The Writer As Literary Citizen, with Natashia Deón

Friday, December 10, 2021

12:15-1:45 pm PT, Art of Translation, with Dan Bellm

12:15-1:45 pm PT, Overview of Post-MFA Certificate Program and Readings in Pedagogy, with Tammy Lechner

12:15-1:45 Turaco Graduating Student Presentations, evaluated by Brad Kessler:

The Remembrance of Things Past: Shaping Traumatic Memories in Literary Fiction, with Sona GevorkianSovereign

House: A New Model for Understanding Conflict in Fiction, with JP Goggin

Hopepunk and the Climate Crisis in Poetry: Exploring Collective Consciousness Through the Pronoun "We" in Last Days by

Tamiko Beyer, with Nancy Lynée Woo


Saturday, December 11, 2021

8:00-9:30 am PT, Poetry Guest Seminar: On Order and Disorder: In Writing and in Life, with Diane Seuss

9:45-11:15 am PT, The Business of Writing: How to Successfully Research and Submit to Literary Journals, Publishers, and Agents, with Kristina Marie Darling

Sunday, December 12, 2021

8:00-9:00 am PT, Post-MFA Student Presentations, evaluated by Tammy Lechner

8:00-9:30 am PT, Turaco Graduating Student Presentations, evaluated by Victoria Patterson

Monday, December 13, 2021

8:00-9:00 am PT, Turaco Graduating Student Presentations, evaluated by Sarah Van Arsdale

  • Kafka's Influence on Absurdist Literature, with Cari Ebel

  • Editorial Intimacy: How Maxwell Perkins Revolutionized the Relationship Between Editor and Author, with Louise Rozett

8:00-9:30 am PT, Critical Paper Seminar, with Lorinda Toledo

9:00-10:45 am PT, Reading Like a Writer, with Ross Brown

9:45-11:15 am PT, Speculative Guest Seminar: Inclusive Dialogue and Dialect, with Nisi Shawl

3:00-4:30 pm PT, Arts, Culture, & Society II / Guest Pedagogy Seminar: Writing for Your Audience, with Matthew Salesses

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

9:45-11:15 pm PT, Arts, Culture, & Society II / Zoeglossia Guest Panel: What Do We Mean When We Talk about Disability Visibility?, with Sheila Black, Connie Voisine, Tonya Suther, and Saleem Hue Penny

12:00-1:15 pm PT, Dialogue: Crafting Conversation in Fiction, with Mitali Perkins

1:30-2:45 pm PT, Childhood Memoirs and Their Narrators, with Reyna Grande

1:30-2:45 pm PT, Punctuation, with Brad Kessler

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

2:15-3:45 pm PT, Introduction to Scripted Podcasting, with Ligiah Villalobos

2:15-3:45 pm PT, Writing Annotations and the Short Critical Paper, with Ross Brown

Thursday, December 16, 2021

8:00-10:00 am PT, Writers-at-Work Guest Seminar: Navigating the Publishing World with an Agent: Queries, the Author–Agent Relationship, and What Literary Agents Do, with Rayhané Sanders

10:15-11:45 am PT, Young People Guest Seminar: The Novel Road Map, with CB Lee

12:30-1:45 pm PT, Arts, Culture, & Society II / Self-Speaking World: Writing and Ecology, with Marco Wilkinson

Friday, December 17, 2021

8:00-9:00 am PT, Turaco Graduating Student Presentations, evaluated by Brad Kessler

8:00-9:00 am PT, Turaco Graduating Student Presentations, evaluated by Victoria Patterson

8:00-9:30 am PT, How to Prepare and Teach a 20-Minute Presentation / Orientation to the Final Term, with Lisa Locascio Nighthawk

9:45-11:00 am PT, Radical Revision: How to See Your Work Anew, with Chris Feliciano Arnold

9:45-11:00 am PT, The Circus of Sentences, with Sarah Van Arsdale

1:30-2:45 pm PT, Getting to Know Them: Bringing Characters to Life, with Terry Wolverton

Saturday, December 18, 2021

8:00-9:15 am PT, We Have Put Her Living in the Tomb!, with Jim Krusoe

9:30-10:45 am PT, Writing the Long Critical Paper, with Ross Brown