Share your story (and progress along the way)!

Whether you're formulating an idea, are elbows-deep in research, or have written your first draft, share your progress in the Project Gallery. This class is a community for feedback, collaboration, and creative support.

If you're just getting started, feel free to share your notes, reflections, or reactions to any of the "Take Action" end-of-lesson prompts (download a handy PDF here). The important thing to start sharing, start writing, and make progress towards your goal of creating great work.

When you reach the revision stage, remember to download the worksheet in order to interrogate and improve your work. And then, share your drafts and final piece! We can't wait to read your writing.

Class resources

Download the "Take Action" slides here
Download the revision worksheet here
Publishing links: Writer's Market | Duotrope | NewPages.com | Poets & Writers

Links to discussed essays

"The Careless Language of Sexual Violence" Roxane Gay, The Rumpus
"Thanksgiving in Mongolia" Ariel Levy, The New Yorker
"What Fullness Is" Roxane Gay, Medium

Recommended reading

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and the People Want to Write Them, Francine Prose
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Alexander Chee
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Pulphead: Essays, John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Best American Essays 2018, Hilton Als (ed.) & Robert Atwan (ed.)
Kima Jones
Morgan Jerkins
Randa Jarrar

More links to Roxane's writing

Essay: "I’ve Never Been Good at Dressing Like a Woman"
Essay: "Food TV’s Sadistic Glee"
Essay: "My Body Is Wildly Undisciplined And I Deny Myself Nearly Everything I Desire"
Ayiti
The Best American Short Stories 2018
Not That Bad
Hunger
Difficult Women
World of Wakanda
Bad Feminist: Essays
An Untamed State

Join Roxane online

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