Off to AWP I go…
Posted: January 12, 2012 Filed under: My Writing Leave a comment »Got word that my proposal to speak at the Association of Writing Programs’ annual conference in Chicago this March has been accepted. See y’all in the Windy City soon…. Here’s what I’ll be talking about, and a link to the blog that’s supposed to be supporting this idea: Writing Class: Representing Socio-Economic Realities in Your Work
As economic realities devolve the broader American Dream, writers are shaping a new U.S. life narrative. This panel collects contemporary authors’ responses to this socioeconomic shift by asking: will class-focused writing replace the American race and ethnicity paradigm? Can such a shift illuminate the differences in income and status and lead to greater understanding? Or will the money gap cut out most socioeconomic classes and usher in a new era of class appropriation in literature?
