May 22, 2025 By John Pipkin, fiction faculty One concern that I often hear about delivering critiques in workshop (especially from my undergraduate students) is a version of the question “What if I’m wrong?” or “How do I know if I’ve read the piece correctly?” These are understandable concerns, especially in the semi-public forum of the writing workshop, where you not only need to have a concrete opinion, but you also have to say it out loud in front of other writers and then st...
