RED
WHEELBARROW 2008
GREEN
SHEET & PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
EWRT-065-01
(#2431), EWRT-065X-01 (#2432), EWRT-065-01H (#2944)
Classroom:
L-64
Weekly
meeting time: Wednesday afternoons, 3:45-5:55
Instructor:
Ken Weisner, 864-5797
Ken's Office:
Forum 2C (and L-41B, Red Wheelbarrow Office)
e-mail: weisnerken@fhda.edu +
gyre@cruzio.com
Office hrs: FORUM
2C: Mondays, 5:00-6:00; Tuesdays, 3:45-4:45 (and by appt.);
Wednesdays
(8:10-9:00); Thursdays, 12:30-1:30.
Magazine
office: L41B read manuscripts here� and on listserv
Ken�s e-mail:
weisnerken@fhda.edu + gyre@cruzio.com
Online
websites and listserv
(broadcast
email for Red Wheelbarrow staff & friends):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redwheelbarrow
redwheelbarrow@yahoogroups.com
Ken�s faculty
page: http://faculty.deanza.edu/weisnerken/
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. Magazine design and
production, both print and web based. Magazine management, publicity,
advertising, promotion, marketing, and distribution.
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Tentative
editing and production schedule:
April 9 Introductions, information
sheets, orientation, interview planning.
April 11
Brian Turner Interview, 12:30-2:00
April 16
Whole staff meets to discuss any work in hand.
Debrief
interview. Publicity, solicitation planning and reports.
April 23
Editorial, work in hand, continued.
April 30
Editorial + interview transcription today
May 7 Editorial: + art
subcommittee report today
May 14 Editorial
May 21 Editorial: all submissions should be in
by Wednesday, 5/21, 5:00 PM
*ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION
DEADLINE: Tuesday, May 27th, midnight.
May 28 Editorial: + art subcommittee report
today.
June 4 Editorial plus art
decisions. Order, design.
June 4-11
Production time. Save some extra time�our most intense work.
June 11 Book should be in final production
stage by tonight: ready to upload. June 18 Send out final acceptances, "rejects.� Plan party, reading.
June 25 Book in hand; book party: Reading +
Contest winners.
Tentative schedule: 4-6: prepare event. 6:15-8:15, host event in WRC.
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EWRT 65
Course Goals and Requirements:
Greetings
Friends of the Wheelbarrow; welcome to EWRT 65 aka �the making of a literary
magazine from start to finish in three months.� We did it last year; we did it
the year before� we�ll do it again! Our plan is to have the book in hand finals
week (our big day, Wednesday, June 25th).
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. Substantive comments are especially useful since they will jog your memory during class discussion of submissions. Comment/rating are sheets (available in L41B). 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 Yahoo site is also helpful and important. I will get you signed up on the Yahoo site by the end of this week. Look out for the invitation in your email; you need to respond to it.
Electronic
manuscripts are encouraged, even preferred. I will log them in, print out one copy for the office
(and for use in meetings), and then most often post the piece as an attachment
on the website. We can comment on
manuscripts through the listserv, using it as a forum. If we have a volunteer
on the staff to scan worthwhile hard copy manuscripts into electronic form,
then we can post more material that way.
Work that is placed in the wire basket in the L41 office is work we plan to discuss that upcoming Wednesday afternoon. Read and prepare for Wednesday meetings, and comment on the work��especially all work in your genre area if you are specializing. That is the "homework" in this course! One other reminder: please don�t remove manuscripts from the office without special permission. Check the listserv/e-mail for meeting agenda updates.
Please do
not to be overly flip in your assessments; 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. Our 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
Wednesday afternoons, we will focus on discussing �yeses� and "maybes"��poems, stories, plays, etc., from the
wire basket. 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, or to ask for revisions�or to put off tough decisions. But May
28th is the day of reckoning: only yeses and nos after that. Notice that the submission deadline is
Wednesday, May 21st by 5:00 P.M.
Tell your friends to send in work, and absolutely submit some yourself!
Encourage everyone to send work in EARLY.
Our first
job as a group is to get out there and hustle work! Tell your writer-friends that the
best-case scenario for submissions is email. A De Anza student (who has
attended De Anza even any one quarter of the 2007-2008 academic year) can
submit: 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 that I have left out here.
Cover images can be color!
This
quarter we also have the privilege of being able to print a special interview
with Iraq War vet and award winning poet, Brian Turner (conducted in our own WRC, ATC 309,
by De Anza students on Friday, April 11th at 12:30 PM). We will aim
to transcribe the interview by April 30th, edit and discuss how to print it,
and I will post it (with some photographs of the event) to the listserv as
well. As always, 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? Let's have a
great quarter and make a great magazine.
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Areas you
may wish to specialize in:
Poetry
Editor:
Fiction
Editor:
Art Editor:
Interview
recording, transcription:
Managing:
Production:
Proofreading: �
Publicity:
Marketing,
distribution:
Event
coordinator:
Contest
coordinator:
Videographer:
E-Zine
dream/website manager:
Audio/ CD
production:
Other:
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