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INSTRUCTOR: Mat Wenzel, Ph.D., MFA, M.Ed.
EMAIL: m.wenzel@tcu.edu
OFFICE: Reed 133
OFFICE HOURS: T/R 11 to 1:50 and by appointment
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Final Portfolio
On Monday you will be pitching your final CNF project to the class. This should be a very short pitch (between 30 seconds and a minute)...
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Apr 20, 20221 min read
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More CNF
For Wednesday, please read "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood" by James Baldwin and create an x-page. For your jigsaw reading,...
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Apr 7, 20221 min read
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Uses of the Erotic
For Monday, Please read "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider and create an x-page. Also read...
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Apr 6, 20221 min read
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Creative Non-Fiction
For Wednesday, lease read the second chapter of Counterstory by Aja Y. Martinez and create an x-page. You'll also want to read the first...
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Apr 4, 20221 min read
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Fiction Mentor Text
For Wednesday, please read Blue-Skinned Gods pages 159 to 206 AND Bryan Washington's Visitor. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01...
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Mar 20, 20221 min read
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Response Groups
Make sure you have uploaded/shared your flash fiction piece with your response group. You can find your response group members on TCU...
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Mar 19, 20221 min read
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Reading as a Writer
As we continue reading Blue Skinned Gods, make sure that you are adding to your strategies toolbox as well as your daily x-pages. It...
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Mar 19, 20221 min read
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Link to Portfolios
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ls9MzzPxj95FKBYi-VmYKONmKdIp9vZ5jg1wJPQ938g/edit?usp=sharing
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Feb 28, 20221 min read
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Introduction to Narratives
For Wednesday please read “Queer Narrative” by Anne Mulhall from The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies and create an X-page JIGSAW -...
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Feb 28, 20221 min read
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Zines!
Don't forget to bring 10 copies of your poetry zine on Monday! These often take more time to make than you might think, so start cutting,...
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Feb 22, 20221 min read
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Sacrilegion Final section
For Wednesday, please finish reading Sacrilegion and create an x-page. You'll also want to make sure you have added some strategies to...
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Feb 22, 20221 min read
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Sacrilegion Part 5
For Monday, please read Section 5 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson: Pages 46 - 62 and create an x-page. Don't forget to continue to...
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Feb 15, 20221 min read
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Publication Opportunity
eleven40seven is TCU's undergraduate journal of the arts. Their submission deadline is February 25th, 2022. Click on the link below for...
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Feb 15, 20221 min read
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More Poetics!
For Wednesday, please read section 4 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson Pages 33 - 45 and create an x-page. Also bring to class a copy of...
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Feb 9, 20221 min read
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Poetry Workshops!
TCU is hosting KB Brookins this weekend. There will be a live event and a zoom event. If you are looking for some help on your poetry,...
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Feb 8, 20221 min read
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More poetry!
For Monday, February 14, please read Section 3 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson, pages 19-31, and create an X-page Also watch this video...
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Feb 8, 20221 min read
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Considerations
For Wednesday, please read the introduction to Nepantla: an Anthology: Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto. Also read Section 2 of...
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Feb 2, 20221 min read
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Queer Poetics
For Monday, please read Section 1 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson Pages 1 - 8. You'll want to use your "Reading as a Writer" lens as...
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Jan 31, 20221 min read
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The Erotic as Power
If you haven't already, you might want to read Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." https://fredandfar.com/blogs/ff-b...
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Jan 31, 20221 min read
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Privelege and Positionality
For Wednesday please read “Waking Up to Whiteness and White Privilege” by Ann Gleig https://www.ucf.edu/news/waking-up-to-whiteness-and-w...
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Jan 26, 20221 min read
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