Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course aims to develop the creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction, to develop self-editing skills, and to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing literary fiction. Students will read both contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates' fiction, and producing and work-shopping their own fiction. Students will compile a portfolio of the work they produce during the term. Students completing this workshop course will be familiar with the skills needed to produce literary fiction, to self-edit work in progress, and to discern the characteristics that make quality literary fiction.