Guidelines for bringing in a piece of writing you love:

1.	Your piece may be any piece of published fiction or poetry.  This means it must be available in a book or magazine.  Please do not bring in any writing that your friends or family have written unless it is published.
2.	Make 25 copies of your poem, story, or novel excerpt to bring into class.  Make sure to include a citation for your piece.
Eg. Grace Paley, “Mother.” Collected Stories of Grace Paley.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
3.	Be prepared to speak for 5 minutes about your piece.  You may want to talk about why you love the piece, what stands out to you about it, and how it has influenced you as a writer.

Some good resources for finding work that you may love:
-	Best American Short Stories (these anthologies are published every year and compile stories published in literary magazines and journals)
-	http://www.newyorker.com/fiction -- The New Yorker publishes fiction and poetry each week, all of which is available on their website
-	http://plagiarist.com/ -- this site compiles poems from many of the world’s most prominent poets.
-	http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ -- homepage of the Library of Congress’s Poetry 180 project.