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ENGLISH 4FW3

FORMS OF CREATIVE WRITING

Undergraduate

Fall 2026 · C01

Readings

  • Crafting Novels And Short Stories: The Complete Guide To Wri
    James Scott Bell · Suggested
    ISBN 9781599635712
Fall 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Cherie Dimaline, “The Bead Fairy” http://muskratmagazine.com/the-bead-fairy/ or you can find a PDF version online too
  • Octavia Butler, “Amnesty”: https://occourses.weebly.com/uploads/6/1/5/1/6151956/butler_amnesty.pdf
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter One of Slaughterhouse Five: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/184345/slaughterhouse-five-by-kurt-vonnegut/9780385333849/excerpt
  • Ann Rice, Chapter One of Interview with the Vampire: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/153679/interview-with-the-vampire-by-anne-rice/9780345409645/excerpt

Readings

  • Crafting Novels and Short Stories: The Complete Guide to Writing Great Fiction
    Bell, James Scott, and the Writer’s Digest editors · 2012 · Required
    Writer's Digest
  • Ebook: $10.99 Kindle edition
    See source
  • Introduction
    See source
  • CN&SS Chapters 1-2 Choose one of stories above (“The Bead Fairy,” “Amnesty,” Slaughterhouse Five excerpt, Interview with the Vampire excerpt
    See source
  • William Gibson, “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” OR James Joyce, “Clay”
    See source
  • No class, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
    See source
  • CN&SS Chapters 12-13 Troy Sebastian, “New Year’s Eve 1984” OR Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “An Old Man with Enormous Wings”
    See source
  • CN&SS Chapters 17-18
    See source
  • Casey Plett, “A Love Like in the Movies” OR Nalo Hopkinson, “Shift”
    See source
  • CN&SS Chapters 20 and 22
    See source
  • Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (excerpt) OR Cat Rambo, “Clockwork Fairies”
    See source
  • CN&SS Chapters 26-27
    See source
Sources