Pre-residency Assignments
- Alicia Elliott Pre-residency Assignment:
- In A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, author Alicia Elliott draws on memory, personal experience and research into science and history to explore racism, poverty, injustice and other complex, emotionally charged issues. Choose one example of her technique of combining memory with research, and discuss why it works -- or, if you feel it falls short, how it could have been improved. (500 words, due midnight Aug. 1. Submit to me at stephen.e.kimber@gmail.com.)
- Jordan Ginsberg Pre-residency Assignment:
- We're not going to ask you to complete a written assignment but we do expect you to have read the attached materials before the residency so you'll be ready to discuss them in our class with Jordan Ginsberg.
- As you know, Jordan is this year's Editor in Residence. He is, in real life, the editorial
- Strange Light evolved as a book publishing venture from Hazlitt. We'd like you to read Jordan's attached initial pitch for the publishing venture (which was then still known as Hazlitt Books).
- Jordan himself is also currently editing a hockey book by Sean Fitz-Gerald called Saving the Game.
- We're including a copy of that proposal as Jordan presented it to the committee at Penguin Random House. (The book is being published by its McClelland & Stewart imprint.) Because this is the internal document and Jordan and Sean had discussed the pitch already, this is a slightly different form than the proposals we'll be expecting you to write this fall.
- With Sean's permission, Jordan is also sharing with you two in-progress versions of a chapter he's editing.
- In the first — "JG1" — you'll see Sean's original manuscript with queries from Jordan.
- In the second — "JG2" — Sean has responded to (or not) Jordan's comments in a second draft and Jordan has begun to line edit the chapter. (Editing is often a multi-stage process.)
- Read both to get a sense of the interaction and the process. We'll be discussing all of that during Jordan's classroom presentation, after which we'll send you the final finished chapter so you can see how it all turned out.
- Given that the book hasn't been published yet, all of this is for your eyes only and not for sharing.