ENGL 385(F) Advanced Fiction Workshop: Form and Technique
A course for students with experience writing fiction and an understanding of
the basics of plot, character, setting, and scene. By examining stories in both
traditional and unusual forms, we'll study how a story's significant elements are
chosen, ordered, and arranged; how the story is shaped; how, by whom, and to
what purpose it's told. Students will generate new stories for workshop, employing the forms and techniques studied.
Format: discussion class/workshop. Requirements: active participation in workshop and written assignments, including brief responses to assigned stories; at
least two story drafts (8-20pp long), for discussion in workshop; and at least one
revised, polished story.
Prerequisites: English 283 or 384, or permission of instructor. Enrollment limit:
12 (expected: 12).