The Creative Writing Capstone course focuses on the writing, revision, and compilation of a final project that represents the culmination of the work you have done as a writer at Columbia College Chicago. Your work in this class also functions as a portfolio of transferable skills that can help you transition from your Columbia career and into professional lives as writers, editors, publishers, and content creators. In this course you will create a final Capstone project using the writing and critical thinking skills you have developed in your workshops, your literature courses, and your professional writing and Practicum classes. Your Capstone project might be a manuscript of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or hybrid writing; or your Capstone might be a long-form audio, visual, or performance project. No matter what kind of Capstone project you create, it will be guided by a series of key questions about your overall body of work: 1) What texts can serve as models for your Capstone? 2) What does it mean to compile a long-form project? 3) How do you organize and arrange a long-form project? 4) How does your long-form project represent your developing aesthetic and favored lineage? As you draft and revise your final project, you also will practice building a writing platform for publishing and circulating your creative work.