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Writing for the public is an opportunity for academics to share expertise and engage in broader discourse.
It makes sense that in our culture of gain and scarcity that [finding a voice] should be a hunt or search or possession, but I don't think that's true," said Vuong, an award-winning poet, novelist, and the featured speaker at the recent annual Eliot Memorial Reading. "I don't think one finds a voice ... I think one develops it throughout one's life ... I'm still discovering mine.
Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that benign, pipe-smoking, elbow-patched man of letters Malcolm Bradbury, the private language of creative writing workshops has taken over the world. What writers used to say to small circles of students in an attempt to help them improve their storytelling technique has become a familiar way, often parodic and self-knowing, of interpreting the grand and not-sogrand narratives of our time.