Tools for Self-Critique: Becoming Your Own Editor

Tools for Self-Critique: Becoming Your Own Editor

Work with poet José Angel Araguz on revising your own work

By The Notebooks Collective

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Online

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Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

How do we learn to see our own work clearly and generously? This two-hour online class blends practical editorial strategies with reflective, writer-centered techniques to help you become a more confident and curious editor of your own work.

We’ll start with a conversation on three pieces you’ll bring to class: one you love, one you like, and one that challenges you. We’ll then choose one of the drafts to practice identifying what’s working in a piece, what questions it’s asking, and what possibilities revision can open up. Through interactive lecture and guided prompts, we’ll explore how to cultivate a more generous, self-aware approach to the revision process.

Open to all genres and experience levels, this class invites you to shift your revision practice from one of judgment to one of discovery and accountability.

About José Angel Araguz, Ph.D.

José Angel Araguz, Ph.D. (he/him/él) is the author most recently of the lyric memoir Ruin & Want (Sundress Publications) as well as the poetry collections Rotura (Black Lawrence Press) and La esperanza espera (Valparaiso Ediciones). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, The Acentos Review, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander and is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Lasell University. He blogs and reviews books at The Influence.

$60Aug 3 · 12:00 PM PDT