Pocket Goes to AWP in 2010
DENVER, CO. — D. Gilson and Ben Pfeiffer, editors at The Pocket Review, will be participating in the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in a panel with Brian Shawver, Jane Hoogestraat, and Linda Moser. The panel discussion focuses on the standardization of creative writing curriculums.
From the proposal by Dr. Moser:
Creative Conformity: Standardizing Fiction and Poetry Courses. This panel focuses on Missouri State University’s recent attempts to standardize the curriculum of its multi-section introductory creative writing courses. We will present the rationale underlying the decision to standardize, and we will discuss the processes by which we selected the standard texts, topics, and methods. Finally, we will share the effects of the project on student performance, assessment and graduate student mentoring.
If you’ll be at the conference in Denver, April 7th – April 10th 2010, please drop by and join the discussion! We hope to see you there.