Panel: Writing The Threshold: Writing Across Social, Political, and Gendered Boundaries

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 23, 2006, as part of the 37th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Border Crossings,” Carol Gilligan, Fan Shen, Mark Salzman, Robin Magowan, and Sam Pickering participate in a panel called “Writing the Threshold: Writing Across Social, Political, and Gendered Boundaries.” The panelists discuss their beginnings as writers, entering literary tradition, the line between fiction and nonfiction in the memoir form, the role of editing in the writing process, the life that characters come to in fiction writing, and authorial agency.Moderated by Dr. Michael C. Beard, Department of English.