Literary Editing

ENGL 304A: Literary Editing

This course is an introduction to literary editing (as an intellectual and aesthetic process and as literary citizenship) and an exploration of the collaboration between writer and editor. We’ll discuss and enact the procedures, concepts, and nuances of literary editing, focusing particularly on manuscript editing, copyediting, and proofreading. While our work might include some tools that relate to editing, in general, our focus is on literary editing, closely examining creative writing itself..

Lecture

January 17, 2023 - May 4, 2023

Tuesday/Thursday, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.

Building B, Room B 158

Prof. Olivia Cronk, o-cronk@neiu.edu

Olivia Cronk teaches Composition, Creative Writing, and Literature for the English Department at NEIU. She's the author of three books: WOMONSTER (Tarpaulin Sky, 2020), Louise and Louise and Louise (The Lettered Streets Press, 2016), and Skin Horse (Action Books, 2012). With Philip Sorenson, she edits The Journal Petra. They also co-write criticism; their upcoming piece is about Madison McCartha's Freakophone World and its between-ness, sonic worms, and freak-speech.