Caitlin Horrocks in The Kenyon Review Online

A new piece by faculty member Caitlin Horrocks, “The Glory of the Bad Idea,” is published as the first 75th Anniversary essay for the series, The Kenyon Review Credos:

Whatever we do on the page, those of us who are both writers and teachers of beginning creative writing generally find ourselves emphasizing orthodoxies in the classroom: that someone or something should change. That characters should be round, or that stories need characters at all. That desire + obstacle = conflict = plot. We want students to get a grip on what a “literary” short story is, and then we want to help them write one with only the minimum required amount of pain and suffering.

Finish reading this essay and others at The Kenyon Review Online.