Advanced Fiction Workshop

9 units · Undergraduate

Fall and Spring: 9 units This is an intensive fiction-writing workshop. You will be required to write three new short stories in the first part of the semester, all of which will be workshopped with discussion primarily on what the story is about and what you want from each piece. You will spend the next part of the course rewriting one of the pieces. Your final portfolio will be comprised of your stories, copies of all your drafts, responses to the books we've read in class, and any other comments, exercise you want to include. I am suggesting you keep a writing notebook - for this class but I will not require it as everyone's writing process is different. One of the great differences between fiction writing at the introductory or intermediate level and fiction at the advanced level is the writer's ability to discuss their own work, and the work of others, in interesting and original ways. Another difference is in the way the writer approaches their own work - establishing a strong narrative voice in each piece as well as acknowledging the relationship between form and content. Prerequisites: ( 76-260 Min. grade B and 76-460 Min. grade B) or ( 76-261 Min. grade B and 76-460 Min. grade B)