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The Culture Of Competitive Masculinity At The Iowa Writers’ Workshop

WORDS Posted: April 26, 2019 9:29 am

This “masculinist logic” infected the classroom. Criticism had always been central to the Workshop experience, and it was harsh by design. Engle believed “that young writers overestimated their creative powers, a flaw that only astringent criticism could overcome.” Cisneros put it more simply: “There was no love.” The poet Robert Bly described how “the aggression went against each other,” as students tore apart works in progress. Praise was uneven, and favoritism was everywhere.  – The New Republic

WORDS Published: 04.24.19

Read the story in The New Republic Published: 04.24.19

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