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Joelle Jameson

Joelle Jameson holds an M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from Emerson College and currently resides in Somerville, MA. She developed a playwriting class for EmersonWRITES, a free Saturday morning creative writing program for Boston public school students, and taught it there from 2011-2014. Her semi-rhymed one-act play, “Surreal Gist,” an account of Lee Miller and Man Ray’s real-life break-up in 1929, was performed in October, 2013 at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA. Having written theater reviews for Blast Magazine in the past, she now blogs more candidly at joellejameson.com

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Diversifying Creative Writing Educational Programs with Playwriting
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Diversifying Creative Writing Educational Programs with Playwriting

18 April 2014

The neglect of playwriting as a genre in what I’ll lovingly call the creative writing industrial machine—poetry, fiction, and non-fiction/memoir are the ruling three—hasn’t escaped conference organizers. They actively encourage pitches for playwriting panels, which are typically in short supply. This year, this poet and part-time playwriting instructor made a point of attending as many theater-related panels as possible. It was an incredibly heartening experience, mainly due to the emphasis placed on the benefits of incorporating playwriting into creative writing and literature classrooms.