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What to Expect
What to Expect
The online course runs each fall semester and is designed to welcome writers with little-to-no experience as well as those interested in pursuing creative writing as a career or hobby. Students study and practice plot arcs, concepts in characterization and conflict, poetic elements, and learn common publication expectations while having the opportunity to write and workshop a number of prose and poetry pieces.
The prose assignments allow students to read, practice, and workshop life writing (memoir), explore and experiment with setting as well as consider the important role of conflict and characterization. We focus on and reward sensory details and imagery as well as internal and external conflict. Genre and world building is welcome :)
Student also write free verse (not rhyming) poetry while they study and experiment with stanza and lines breaks, word choice, dual meaning, and common poetic elements such as imagery, enjambment, and assonance.
Each formal assignment is workshopped by 2-3 students from the course via a shared Google folder and embedded comments. Students are always a little timid during the first workshop but quickly learn to value the feedback and discussion (even more than their grading feedback from me, to be honest).
Required Textbooks & Materials (subject to change)
Required Textbooks & Materials (subject to change)
Making Shapely Fiction by Stern
The Poet's Companion by Addonizio and Laux
A good dictionary and thesaurus (online is fine)
A willingness to improve what you think needs no improving and to ask “what will make my writing more successful.”
Sample syllabus policy (subject to change)
Sample syllabus policy (subject to change)
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