Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing鈥揚rose
Course Description
Summary
This two-credit course involves working on the conceptualization and editing of the national print literary magazine Bennington Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine. The course will also engage students in how to approach fiction as an editor: from the selection process, macro edits, and micro edits鈥攖o the conversation with the writer. Students will learn to edit a fiction piece and as part of the course credit, they must turn around an edit to the instructor. Students will be reading ten Bennington Review submissions a week.
Learning Outcomes
- students will be versed in a variety of successful past submissions and what fiction the Bennington Review is seeking
- students will be grouped into editorial teams and assigned all of the submissions at the beginning of the term
- students will be assigned ten stories a week to read the entire term and will vote and comment on individual stories as they are read
- a representative of each team will present one piece from the assigned submissions every week.
- students will learn and engage in editing practices using previously rejected stories from the submitted examples
Prerequisites
Students must submit to the registrar's office by (XX DATE) a short note stating reasons they want to participate in the course and offer any editing experience they've had in the past as well, though no editing experience is strictly required.
Please contact the faculty member : manuelgonzales@bennington.edu
Corequisites
All students enrolled in a 4000 level literature course are required to attend Literature Evening and Poetry at Bennington events, which are held at 7pm on Wednesday evenings.