Writers: Craft & Context https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal <p>Welcome to <em>Writers: Craft &amp; Context</em>, an open-access interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide array of material focused on writers: the work they do, the contexts in which they compose and circulate their work, how they are impacted by policies and pedagogies (broadly conceived) and how they develop across the lifespan. We invite contributions from a range of academic fields such as writing studies, cultural studies, education, psychology, sociology, literature and modern languages as well as from community experts outside academia, including program leaders, activists, volunteers, artists, and others who see, support, and do the work of writing in non-academic contexts. We are eager to publish traditional and creative genres including research articles, reflections on methodology, pedagogy pieces, collaborative or multi-voice works, collages, essays, creative nonfiction, interviews and more.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We welcome work on writers that doesn’t fit neatly elsewhere. In a departure from traditional academic journals, WCC Journal will serve as a venue for writers “to speak with (rather than for and over) others’ communities”.* We are committed to a vision of “equitable representation in our scholarship and in our field at large” and, as editors, we take seriously our responsibility “to create the conditions to make it happen” (274).** Visit our “<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/about">About</a>” page for more about the commitments driving WCC Journal. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* “Open Letter” Black, Latinx, American Indian, Queer Caucus, Asian/Asian American Caucuses, NCTE &amp; CCCC, December 2018.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">**Blewett, Kelly, LaVecchia, Christina M., Micciche, Laura, R., and Morris, Janine. (2019). Editing as Inclusion Activism. <em>College English</em>, 81(4), 273-296.<br /></span></p> University of Oklahoma Libraries en-US Writers: Craft & Context 2688-9595 Cover Art https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/130 VÕ THIÊN VIỆT Copyright (c) 2023 VÕ THIÊN VIỆT http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 ii ii 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.ii Editor's Introduction https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/114 Aja Martinez Sandra Tarabochia Michele Eodice Copyright (c) 2023 Aja Y. Martinez, Sandra L. Tarabochia, Michele Eodice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 1 2 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.1-2 A Record of Revision https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/78 <p>This is a poem about reflexivity in research and writing.</p> Rosanna Vail Copyright (c) 2023 Rosanna Vail http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 3 3 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.3 Putting It All on the Table https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/69 <p>In this autoethnographic article, I argue that the recent and trending new materialist focus within composition studies—which tends to assume the privilege of agency and unmitigated choice on behalf of writers regarding their writing environments (Prior and Shipka, 2002; Alexis, 2016)—doesn’t necessarily hold space for writers whose writing environments regularly yield to and are shaped by the preferences, habits, and material effects of actors outside of themselves—namely, their children. In making my argument about the particular effects of such mutliagent writing environments, I use a materialist lens to reveal and analyze my own and other single mother graduate student writers’ (SMGSWs) scenes of writing, hoping to invite reflection on what assumptions we may hold about the writing environments of our students, our colleagues, and ourselves.</p> Jayne Stone Copyright (c) 2023 Jayne Stone http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 4 14 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.4-14 The South Ain't a Lost Cause https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/70 <p>With so many dominant narratives about the South being “the embarrassing part of the country” because of its seemingly conservative politics, it’s easy to think of this region of the United States as a place beyond redemption. In this piece, I describe the current state of Southern politics (e.g., voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other Right-wing attacks), and how these policies have led to a misleading narrative of the South that ignores the political work of Black queer Southerners. After an analysis of Southern political discourse, I craft a story about a Black queer community organizer tasked with amplifying the voices of marginalized Southerners during a presidential election for a campaign that wants to write off the South for its conservative policies. My counterstory not only rejects the majoritarian narrative that erases the progressive work of Black queer activism, but also provides a heuristic for exposing racist power structures and politically investing in marginalized communities.</p> Erin Green Copyright (c) 2023 Erin Green http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 15 26 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.15-26 Bringing a Burden to Bear https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/68 <p>In this essay, I consider my position as a multiply marginalized scholar teaching within vastly different spaces—in a neocolonized island territory of the US with a minority majority student population; then to rural, land grant, and predominantly White institutions on the West coast; to a private urban campus in one of the original US colonies. I think deeply about my responsibilities, my complicity, and what it means to carry this weight, truly, across America, in order to confront the complexity of what “America” is alongside my students. To address this complexity of contexts, I look to the ways Amerindian and American Indigenous rhetorics bear against colonial injustice<br />through language.</p> Tabitha Espina Copyright (c) 2023 Tabitha Espina http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 27 30 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.27-30 Writing in the Profession https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/77 <p>A conversation between five students and a faculty member, this article explores the experience of writing as a graduate student. Areas of conversation include tensions between being students, writers, and teachers; individuality and vulnerability; and writing in/as community.&nbsp;</p> Troy Andrews Cameron Becker Mary Gilmore Steve Lively Elizabeth Osifalujo Deborah Mix Copyright (c) 2023 Troy Andrews, Cameron Becker, Mary Gilmore, Steve Lively, Elizabeth Osifalujo, Deborah Mix http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 31 51 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.31-51 Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112 <p>This is the lead contribution for the series of fourteen student essays that follow. This first contribution offers contextual information about the course as well as suggestions for replicating this course in other contexts. Provided course materials are a course schedule, readings, and assignments. </p> Aja Y Martinez Robert O. Smith Copyright (c) 2023 Aja Y Martinez; Robert O. Smith http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 52 59 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.52-59 Critical Essay 1 https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/115 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> <p class="p1"> </p> Emily Bailey Copyright (c) 2023 Emily Bailey http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 60 62 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.60-62 Waiting for History https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/116 <p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> Cat Sylvia Blackwell Copyright (c) 2023 Cat Sylvia Blackwell http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 63 68 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.63-68 Policing the Black Experience and Critical Race Theory https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/117 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> Nicholas Durham Copyright (c) 2023 Nicholas Durham http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 69 72 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.69-72 Williams’s Polar Bears https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/118 <p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> Grace Leuschen Copyright (c) 2023 Grace Leuschen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 73 75 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.73-75 Counterstory and Representation Through Media https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/119 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> V. Manuel Muñiz Copyright (c) 2023 V. Manuel Muñiz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 76 78 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.76-78 How Alice Walker Shaped Derrick Bell’s Counterstory https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/121 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> Eva Thor Copyright (c) 2023 Eva Thor http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 82 84 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.82-84 New Trek, 90s Trek, & the Permanence of Racism https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/122 <p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> Josephine Collins Copyright (c) 2023 Josephine Collins http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 85 89 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.85-89 Mi Mamá, La que Llora https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/123 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> Natali Coronado Copyright (c) 2023 Natali Coronado http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 90 93 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.90-93 Beloved https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/124 <p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> Kaley Johnson Copyright (c) 2023 Kaley Johnson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 94 96 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.94-96 Intersectionality in South Park https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/126 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> Sami Pray Copyright (c) 2023 Sami Pray http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 97 99 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.97-99 Flesh, Blood, and Counterstory https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/127 <p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> McKenzie Shoemaker Copyright (c) 2023 McKenzie Shoemaker http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 100 103 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.100-103 A Counterstory https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/128 <p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> Alaia Snell Copyright (c) 2023 Alaia Snell http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 104 108 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.104-108 Model M https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/129 <p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p> Sam Thiersch Copyright (c) 2023 Sam Thiersch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 109 114 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.109-114 Teaching ChatGPT for Grant Writing https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/125 <p>In the spring of 2023, stirred by reports that AI was radically transforming the writing industry (and "creating an epidemic of cheating"), I taught my Department of English senior capstone students how to use ChatGPT to write grants. In this brief write-up, I describe my rationale for teaching about the AI (to get students jobs); how it can fit into writing studies best practices (e.g., process pedagogy); ways to create assignments that might limit its use (localization and contextualization); as well as a few fast and messy activities and student process examples that evolved over the<br />semester. The students chose to offer their writing using a first name only and a pseudonym.</p> Will Kurlinkus Copyright (c) 2023 Will Kurlinkus http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2023-09-08 2023-09-08 4 1 115 124 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.115-124