Be Your Own Editor

As Ernest Hemingway once said, “Easy writing makes hard reading.”

Revision is a necessary part of any writing project, yet revising one’s own work can often seem daunting. In this workshop, you’ll learn tools for how to approach your own writing with the objectivity of an editor. We’ll talk about when to begin the revision process as well as how to divide it into palatable stages.

Bring a work-in-progress for in-class writing.

About the Instructor

Midge Raymond has taught journalism and creative writing at Boston University, Boston’s Grub Street Writers, San Diego Writers Ink, and Seattle’s Richard Hugo House, as well as at such national writing conferences as the Southern California Writers’ Conference and the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference at Centrum. Prior to co-founding Ashland Creek Press, Midge worked as an editor and copywriter for such publishers as Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and St. Martin’s Press. Her own writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, TriQuarterly, Ontario Review, North American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and many others, and has received three Pushcart Prize nominations as well as an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. Her short story collection, Forgetting English, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and was reissued by Press 53 in April.

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