Reading

I've been doing research for an article which has led me to read two chapbooks published by the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project about writing marathons. I took part in a Summer Institute at the University of Mississippi Writing Project more than ten year ago (gosh, maybe 15 now), and it was one of the best experiences of my life. It was writing intensive and creative and I really enjoyed being involved in a community of teachers/writers. I am toying with the idea of applying to start a national writing project site at my university, but I know it will be a great deal of work and effort, and I'm not certain I'm willing to put that in. I would need a couple of colleagues who are willing to commit, and I would probably need to try to get involved with one of the existing sites ahead of time (and they're all a couple hours drive from here). IDK It's probably more work than I'm interested in.

Anybody else done anything with the National Writing Project?

(I intended to drop my reviews of these texts from Goodreads here, but DW keeps giving me an error message when I try to upload either; it's very weird.)


( reviews of The Penelopiad, On Rhetoric, and Fantastic Voyage )