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Online Feedback Clinic: Criticism and Reviews
How do we approach criticism as a form that, as critic Merve Emre asks, “allows us to make sense of something—a fact, a feeling, an art form—by orienting a set of beliefs about the world [and] allows us to make this knowledge known to others"? In this feedback clinic, participants will learn how to structure and think through techniques that will help hone their approach to writing criticism. This online feedback clinic actively encourages sharing of your work with your cohort as well as with the tutor.-
Cher Tan on Criticism and Reviews
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, Runway Journal, Gusher magazine, Overland and Catapult, amongst others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Ahead of Cher’s Online Feedback Clinic starting this month, Writers Victoria Program and Competitions Administrator, Caitlin McGregor, spoke with Cher about her critical practice, the …