Creative Nonfiction

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Retrospection is a powerful form of meaning making: it allows us to consider what happened through the lens of subsequent experience, adding a layer of significance to memory and allowing the writer to recognize and reflect on what’s changed.

In our next webinar, Michael Copperman will examine how tense functions; consider the often-repeated advice that present tense is more vivid and immediate; and analyze how mastering tense allows seasoned writers to engage in retrospection and reflection.

Angle of Vision: Reflection and Retrospection, Tense and Time
Wednesday, November 2 at 2 pm Eastern
Join us: https://buff.ly/3U2eejW

"That a writer can learn the craft of writing but not how to weigh and face possible negative implications to their work needs to be remedied.

Ethics are not ancillary to craft but, in fact, critical to the craft of writing. And when it comes to writing about social issues, I will go so far as to say that you cannot write about social issues responsibly unless your work is grounded in ethics. So many problematic essays that have been and continue to be published, sometimes to the regret of the writer and to the distress of many readers, could be avoided by foregrounding discussions of ethics and moral clarity in the work and in the editorial process."

Kavita Das considers what it means to "make an impact" with your writing:

On the Ethics of Writing About Social Issues (While Minimizing Harm) Like so many other writers, I was shocked and saddened by the brutality of the recent attack on famed author Salman Rushdie. As someone who transitioned to becoming a full-time writer ten years ago…