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Matthew Salesses is a Korean American author and professor of creative writing. He has written several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including 'Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear' and 'The Hundred-Year Flood'.
Known for: Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
In this groundbreaking book, Matthew Salesses challenges traditional Western notions of creative writing workshops and craft. He explores how cultural expectations, power dynamics, and biases shape the way fiction is taught and evaluated. Drawing from his own experiences as a writer and teacher, Salesses offers alternative frameworks for understanding narrative, character, and storytelling that embrace diversity and inclusivity. The book invites writers and educators to rethink what makes writing 'good' and to create more equitable spaces for creative expression.
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Defining Craft
When I talk about 'craft,' I’m not referring to an eternal checklist of elements every good story must have. Craft, as it’s typically defined in the West—character, conflict, plot, showing versus telling—is a cultural system, not a natural law. These conventions emerged from specific traditions, lik...
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Cultural Contexts of Storytelling
Every culture tells stories differently because every culture has different ideas about what stories are for. Western pedagogy may teach that a story must have an individual hero who undergoes change, but many other traditions value continuity, collectivity, or cyclical time. A story that resists cl...
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About Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses is a Korean American author and professor of creative writing. He has written several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including 'Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear' and 'The Hundred-Year Flood'. His writing often explores identity, race, and the politics of storytelling. Sa...
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Matthew Salesses is a Korean American author and professor of creative writing. He has written several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including 'Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear' and 'The Hundred-Year Flood'. His writing often explores identity, race, and the politics of storytelling. Sa...
Matthew Salesses is a Korean American author and professor of creative writing. He has written several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including 'Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear' and 'The Hundred-Year Flood'. His writing often explores identity, race, and the politics of storytelling. Salesses teaches at Columbia University and is recognized for his contributions to reimagining the creative writing workshop model.
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