Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer

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Back to School Special: Thoughtful Imitation

ByAnca Szilagyi

  I didn’t study creative writing as an undergraduate; it wasn’t an option. When I enrolled in the MFA program at University of Washington, what I craved more than workshop (which I’d experienced a few times in continuing education settings) was the elusive “craft” class: reading analytically not to make an argument about literature (which…