FICTION PORTFOLIO

For your final, Fiction Portfolio, please place all materials in a pocketed-folder in the following order and arrangement:

The left-side pocket should contain all the workshop peer-reviews. Each review should be separately stapled and be comprised of that specific day's cover sheet, which is to be properly filled out, and the corresponding paragraphs that were written by your reviewer.

The rights-side pocket, from bottom-to-top, should contain the earlier draft on which I wrote and annotated, the final, polished draft of your story, and a one page, single-spaced author's note that addresses your composition process, focusing primarily (but not exclusively) on our revisions. As opposed to merely listing the global alterations you made (I'm not interesting in line-item edits), please provide explanations for why you made those particular revisions, referencing both craft-oriented changes spurred on by Building Fiction and model-based changes inspired by the stories we read in Best American Short Stories (2008). Please staple the author's note and final draft together.