Cooper Street Workshops: The Joy of Revision

You’ve got a messy draft in your notebook or computer: now what? How do you go from a good first idea to a polished final draft? Using a draft you bring with you, we’ll explore a variety of ways of approaching revision. We’ll also talk about how to work toward publishing your writing, and I’ll provide you with resources for finding publications and sending out your polished writing to literary magazines, newspapers, and online publications. This workshop is open to all genres, and whatever you writing background is, I’ll help you refine your approach to revision. You’ll leave the workshop with a handful of practical strategies you can use for revising your work going forward.

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About the instructor:

Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), selected by Alex Lemon for the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, 32 Poems, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Walter E Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. She grew up in Pittsburgh, taught high school in New Orleans and Houston, and earned an MFA in poetry and a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Assistant Professor of Writing and First Year Studies at Stockton University in southern New Jersey, and she lives outside Philadelphia with her family.