The Misadventures of a Native New Yorker

I like your teacup entry about academic writing workshops. I've done the same thing -- gone into every one of them wide-eyed and eager, then left them frustrated and, during the last couple I took in grad school, having made at least one or two enemies. Clarion, at least, should be a breath of fresh air compared to academia, since we'll be working with writers with at least some degree of commercial success.