55-5216 CRW: Short Story Writers

This course encourages development of lively, well-crafted short fiction by examining the reading and writing processes behind some of the best examples of the form. Working individually and in small groups, students select from a wide range of writers, representing many different voices, backgrounds, subjects, and approaches, to research the ways in which writers read, respond to their reading, and use that reading to generate and heighten their short stories. Students write their own responses to reading and discuss the relationship of reading to development of their own fiction.

3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I