Spring 2010

E 341 • Short Story Workshop-W

Course Description

An intermediate level course in writing short fiction. Students must have successfully completed E 325, Creative Writing. This course is oriented towards literary fiction (by contrast with primarily commercial fiction). This is to say, no sci-fi, adventure, dungeons-and-dragons, spy, gothic, detective, romance, or youth market fiction: all of those genres represent areas of specialization not my own. All literary styles, realist and non-realist, are welcome. Most of the course will be workshop: group discussion of student work. Each student will commit to 3 dates on which s/he will submit a new story in multiple copies.

Grading Policy

Note: Student writing presented in enough copies for everyone in the class. Three short stories, weighted 25%, 25%, and 30% Participation, 20% Conscientious attendance and meeting of deadlines. Optional substantial revision at the end of the course.

Texts

Robert Shapard and James Thomas, Sudden Fiction Internationa

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