Creative Writing II: Fiction Topics

Topics in fiction writing with particular concentration on specific forms or other aspects of the genre using readings as models and inspiration. This might include the novella or the short-short story or techniques such as magical realism, meta-fiction, minimalism, etc., depending on the instructor. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

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302A: FictionTps:LinkedStories

Creative Writing II: Fiction Topics: Linked Stories

All story collections are linked by their authors' sensibilities, but this topic-specific fiction workshop will focus on the purposefully linked story collection sometimes also called the novel-in-stories or the story cycle. We will read many examples of the form including collections which use multiple point of view characters to write about a community. For a final project every student writer will contribute a story to a linked class collection based in an imagined community that together the class will have created and mapped.