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English 290F - Winter, 2024
Creative Writing: Fiction
Class Information
Instructor:
Corin, Lucy
Time:
W 3:10-6:00pm
Location:
120 Voorhies
Description
This is a graduate level fiction writing workshop. Priority for seats is given to MFA candidates in creative writing. Students from other programs are welcome, space permitting; interested students should send a writing sample (fiction) to me (Professor Corin) when requesting permission to enroll.
I want the course to be a place of refuge and invention. You can work on long or short form fiction, fiction that is conventional or unconventional in form. It just has to be literary, it has to want to be art in its broadest most expansive, inclusive, serious and irreverent efforts. We'll read the new Justin Torres novel Blackouts together (it's just out now, so I will read it for the first time with you) along with a smattering of short stories I'll put up on canvas. Make sure you get a hard copy of the Torres to work with (unless you have a disability that makes an electronic version better for you.)
Please register asap, and turn on Canvas notifications for email, so that when I contact you via Canvas to prepare for our first meeting before school starts, you'll get the message. It also helps folks on the wait list know their schedules.
Grading
Assuming appropriate attendance and completion of assignments, grades are based on the quality of writing submitted; the quality of revision work; the quality, usefulness, and consistency of classroom participation; and the intensity of inquiry in both collective and individual aspects of the course.
Texts
Blackouts
, Justin Torres