Carol Bly and Cynthia Loveland, Editors
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Edina, MN 55410
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We think we are the only small literary press to offer professional savvy and hope about the public griefs that exasperate Americans of conscience. And we do not give up our sense of humor.

Our new book: Against Workshopping Manuscripts

“Say a first-year MFA student named William Butler Yeats puts a poem up to be workshopped. Well, there he is with the hair and all, the clothes so last year you couldn’t believe — but wait, this writing group do schmooze, no outright meanness ever. Civility. Camaraderie. No overt jeering.”

“They listen to him. Then they take it in turns to comment. They smile deeply at Yeats and say they really liked how he wrote about an older fellow, the way he did, because older guys’ stories need to be told, too, but if he would kind of not be so negative about the old guy being like ‘a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing,’ he might reach a wider audience.”

— Against Workshopping Manuscripts p. 19-20

“we teachers of creative writing can’t tell which student will be Beethoven, or Lincoln, or Virginia Woolf, or William Butler Yeats. So let’s not ‘workshop’ anyone.”

— Against Workshopping Manuscripts backcover

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