| Detailed Course Description: This class will introduce you to the theory and technique of fiction writing. Beginners are welcome, but all students must be willing to work diligently, to give and receive frank criticism in workshop, and to explore serious literary fiction for the course of the semester. You’ll be gently discouraged from writing genre fiction, including science fiction and stories about zombies, vampires, and post-apocalypses, but I guarantee it won’t take all the fun out of it. Just bring an open mind.
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| Course Requirements: Weekly written creative exercises, readings, and written critiques of classmates’ work, two short stories over the course of the semester, and a final portfolio. Missed class reduces grade by one half a letter.
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| Required Texts: Texts: Texts will probably include: Points of View, James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElhecy; The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner, and/or Steering the Craft, by Ursala K. Le Guin. |
