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This course, which is intended for anyone interested in locating and developing his\/her own voice as a writer, will serve as a continuation of the work you\u2019ve already completed in previous creative writing course(s).\u00a0 Though the course will be run mostly as a workshop\u2014that is, we\u2019ll be taking a look at your writing, providing feedback individually and as a group\u2014we will also spend a good amount of time reading and responding to contemporary, published work.\u00a0 As always, the questions will be: what makes this particular piece successful?\u00a0 What on the page was engaging you?\u00a0 What makes it interesting?\u00a0 Unique? We\u2019ll look closely at the way language is mobilized, how characters are created, how voice is deployed, and how tension is established in a narrative.\u00a0 We will also take a close look at narrative structure.\u00a0 The aim of this course is threefold: to become more familiar with the way fiction \u201cworks,\u201d to introduce you to the idea of reading as a writer, and to provide you with an audience of critically engaged and receptive readers for your own work.<\/p>\n
The first half of this course we will be focusing on the techniques of realism, and will write and read more \u201cgrounded\u201d work; the second half we will turn toward the experimental in form and subject matter, and embrace the strange and less conventional.\u00a0 In other words, we will begin in Kansas, and make our way to Oz. And we will be asking ourselves, always: how does one make art that is urgent and immediate?<\/p>\n
A portfolio of your written work will be due, with revisions, at the end of the semester (2 short stories, 5 exercises, revision essay).<\/p>\n
Course Packet<\/strong> (which will function as our anthology) includes stories by: Octavia Butler, Edward P. Jones, Daphne du Maurier, Jenny Zhang, Haruki Murakami, George Saunders, Garth Greenwell, Rebecca Curtis, Paul Yoon, Carmen Maria Machado, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Daniel Orozco (and others).\u00a0 The packet will also include craft essays by Charles Baxter, Edwidge Danticat, Gary Lutz, Toni Morrison and a selection from The Writer\u2019s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This course, which is intended for anyone interested in locating and developing his\/her own voice as a writer, will serve as a continuation of the work you\u2019ve already completed in previous creative writing course(s).\u00a0 Though the course will be run mostly as a workshop\u2014that is, we\u2019ll be taking a look at your writing, providing feedback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"parent":423,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-628","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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