RED WHEELBARROW — Student Edition, Spring 2012
GREEN SHEET & PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
(#00831) EWRT-065X-64Z   (#00828) EWRT-065.-01   (#41600) EWRT-065.-01H
(#01146) JOUR-065X-64Z    (#01144) JOUR-065W-01  (#41601) JOUR-065.-01H

Classroom: G-1
Weekly meeting time: Monday afternoons, 4:00-5:45
Instructor: Ken Weisner, 864-5797
Ken's Office: Forum 2C 
Office hrs: Mondays/Wednesdays 3:00-4:00, Tuesday, 11:30-1:00/Thursday by appt. 
Red Wheelbarrow Office: L-41B—available exclusively to RW staff on Mondays)
e-mail:  weisnerken@fhda.edu  +  gyre@cruzio.com
Magazine office: L41B read manuscripts here… and on Catalyst
Ken’s e-mail: weisnerken@fhda.edu  +  gyre@cruzio.com

Online websites and listservs
•	Catalyst Red Wheelbarrow EWRT 65 Online Course:  https://catalyst.deanza.edu/
•	Ken’s faculty page: http://faculty.deanza.edu/weisnerken/
•	Creative Writing page: http://www.deanza.edu/english-writing/creative/index.html
•	Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Red-Wheelbarrow/188335641208242
•	Broadcast email for Red Wheelbarrow staff & friends, student edition:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redwheelbarrowredwheelbarrow@yahoogroups.com

Course Prerequisites: 
Advisory: English Writing 200 and Reading 201 (or Language Arts 200), or English as a Second Language 261, 262 & 263.

Course Description: Collaborative evaluation and selection of manuscripts and art work for publication in annual student journal. Magazine design and production, both print and web based. Magazine management, planning, editing, publicity, promotion, marketing, design, printing, and distribution.

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Tentative editing and production schedule:
BEGINNINGS: ORIENTING, SOLICITING, SPECIALIZING, & SETTING CRITERIA
April 9   Introductions, information sheets, orientation
o	Get comfortable online (catalyst)
o	Explore back issues
o	begin reading and evaluating manuscripts (online and packets)
o	begin soliciting work: flyers, class visits, networking
o	Interview ideas?  brainstorm this week
April 16 Discuss work in hand.
o	Distribute and post flyers as a class over next 2 weeks
o	Plan class visits to publicize magazine & solicit finest student work
o	Use other digital/ social networking sites to solicit material as well
April 23 Editorial, work in hand, continued.
o	Continue to evaluate work in hand and solicit new material
o	Discuss art in Faculty/ Staff show: searching for cover for national edition
April 30   Editorial, continued
May 7      Editorial, continued
May 14    Editorial, continued—student art show up yet?
May 21    Euphrat: Student Show should be up today.  We’ll visit, evaluate, & solicit best art.
 ***Friday, May 25th— SUBMISSION DEADLINE  for student writing

May 28  HOLIDAY—vote online (vital to read & respond—even though no class)

June 4   Editorial: Making final choices, part 1

      *June 4-13  Final editorial and art decisions.  Order and design decisions. This is our intense production time.  Save up extra hours to help. In the theater, they call this “hell week.”

June 11*  Regular class period: making final choices, part 2 + production, and proofreading

*Extra meetings (attend the ones you are able to attend…it’s voluntary.
Wednesday, June 6st, 4-5:45, in classroom	(editorial & design)
Wednesday, June 6st, 6-10:00, (location TBA)	(editorial & design)  (pizza)
Monday, June 11th, 6-10 (after class in L-41)       (editorial, design, proof, pizza) 
Wednesday, June 13th, 4-5:45  (location TBA)	(proofreading)
Wednesday, June 13th, 6--??? (location TBA)	(proofreading)  (pizza)

     ***June 14/15   Book should be uploaded to printer.

June 18  Send out final acceptances, "rejects.”  Plan party/reading.
June 25  Last class—prepare for reading and celebration/announce contest winners

Wednesday, June 27, our final exam time (4-6): prepare for publication celebration in WRC
Wednesday, June 27, 6:15-8:15, host publication event in WRC

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EWRT 65 & 65X Course Goals and Requirements:
Greetings & welcome to EWRT 65 a.k.a. “the making of a literary magazine from start to finish in three months.” We did it last year; we did it the year before… and the year before that…  and we’ll do it again this year.  But it’s not easy. In fact, it’s always an adventure. Our plan is to have the book in hand for finals week (our big day is Wednesday, June 27th).

All student edition manuscripts will be anonymous——names removed.  Manuscripts will be logged in with a number instead of a name.  We can refer to the pieces by number and by title and by other stuff like you know “the one about the flying cow,” etc. All manuscripts are logged-in by instructor or managing editor. 

Staff members should read all student submissions and rank them as “yes,” “no,” or “maybe” after initial read. You can also use a 1-5 scoring system: where five is terrific, 4, is quite good, 3 is OK, 2 is sub-standard, and 1 is poor (or worse). Substantive comments are especially useful since they will jog your memory during class discussion of submissions. Paper comment/rating are sheets are available for hard copy submissions in L41B.  For those submissions, write all comments on the outer envelopes and comment sheets. Reminder: please don’t accidentally write on an original manuscript (unless we have already agreed to ask for revisions and are working on the manuscript with revision in mind). 

Posting comments to the Catalyst site is required. Two-unit students are asked to respond to every manuscript posted. One-unit students are asked to respond online to at least 2-3 pieces per week, ideally these will be pieces they recommend for publication.  Some students will make special arrangements with the instructor to focus on a particular genre.

Electronic manuscripts are encouraged— greatly preferred. We log them in, print out one copy for the office (and for use in meetings), and then post the piece on catalyst.

L-41B, the Red Wheelbarrow Office, is our office exclusively on Mondays (other weekdays, we share the space with those who work on La Voz, the student newspaper). You are always free to use computers in that office to read manuscripts posted in Catalyst. Hard copy manuscripts placed in the wire basket in the L41 office are pieces we probably plan to discuss that afternoon in class. Feel free to come in at any time and work in L41B. Please read and prepare for Monday meetings—and comment on the work—especially all work in your genre area if you are specializing. Please don’t remove manuscripts from the office without special permission.
 
This may sound obvious, but please do not to be overly flip or cavalier in your assessments of work; the work we are evaluating could easily be from one of us on the staff or from someone’s friend. Unfavorable evaluation need not be mean or sarcastic. In fact, evaluative work is a fun, important task requiring respect for truth, for art, for craft, for process—and for one another. When our own work is being discussed, we don’t let on. Like all writers through eternity, we keep our hopes sky high but also stay prepared to wallpaper our rooms with rejection slips. 

On Monday afternoons, we will focus on discussing “yeses” and  "maybes"——the best poems, stories, plays, etc., from the wire basket or from online. Votes are taken after plentiful discussion; everyone gets an equal vote. Up through May 21st, we can still vote to put work back into the maybe pile, ask for revisions—or put off tough decisions. But May 21st (or thereabouts) is the day of reckoning: only yeses and nos after that. Notice that the submission deadline is Friday, May 255h by midnight. Do tell your friends to send work, and absolutely submit some yourself! Encourage everyone to send work early.

Our first job as a group is to get out there and solicit work! Tell your writer-friends that the best-case scenario for submissions is email. A De Anza student (who has attended De Anza for at least one class during one quarter of the 2009-2010 academic year) is eligible to submit work: up to five poems; one short story of up to 5,000 words (20 pages) or three “short shorts”; one play or screenplay (5,000 words); up to five black and white prints or b/w digital files (.tif, .gif or .psd format—.jpg OK too if at least 300 dpi) for photographs or drawings; up to one b/w comic strip; a book review of up to 1,000 words; or any other creative text or image that you can imagine and I’ve left out here.  Cover images can be color!—interior art needs to be graphically interesting in black & white.

We will also publish the winner of the Carolyn Keen literary essay prize (for the best critical essays about literature this academic year by a De Anza student), and we will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd cash prizes to the best writers in poetry, fiction, and art, at our end-of-quarter reading/celebration (these awards are judged anonymously, by an outside panel).

Bring your own creative thoughts and suggestions to the table.  We want to involve De Anza literary and artistic talent in any feasible way. Got any ideas?  A writer you are reading or who is visiting campus—we could interview? Let's have a great quarter and make a terrific magazine.  You are serving De Anza artists, writers, their families, and our community, as well as creating an archive of our imaginative work. Thanks for that.

Areas you may wish to specialize in:
Poetry editor:
Fiction editor:
Art editor:
Other genre editor (drama, creative non-fiction, comic art?):
Interview recording, editing, transcription:
Managing:
Facebook administrator:
Production:
Proofreading:  √ 
Publicity:
Marketing, distribution:
Event coordinator:
Contest coordinator:
Videographer:
E-Zine dream/website manager:
Audio/ CD production:
Help with National Edition as well: 

Other: _____________________