How They Did It: The Art of Revision
Sun, Apr 12
|Page Street Writers
Love it or loathe it, revision is an essential part of the writing process—and one that can carry its own unexpected rewards.
Time & Location
Apr 12, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Page Street Writers, 297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with LitCamp
“It’s possible you could take five tons of butter and cut away everything that’s not a cow. Others of us need to churn our own butter. Revision is finding the cow.” —Elizabeth McCracken, A Long Game
Love it or loathe it, revision is an essential part of the writing process—and one that can carry its own unexpected rewards. But how do professional writers approach revising their own work? Does revision look different across genres? And, since perfection is, let’s face it, impossible, how do they know when the work of revision is done?
In the latest “How They Did It” conversation co-presented by Litquake and LitCamp, we’ll hear from five writers who embrace the messy yet fruitful process of revision. Journalist and creative nonfiction specialist Jeanne Carstensen (A Greek Tragedy), memoirist Margaret Juhae Lee (Starry Field), short story writer Lori Ostlund (Are You Happy?),…