Creative Writing 321 - Special Topics Studio

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Reed College

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Creative Nonfiction Full course for one semester. This course is designed for students with considerable experience as writers and an interest in the aesthetic and ethical issues involved in the practice of creative nonfiction. The class will read essays from a wide range of writers (Hazlitt, Emerson, Turgenev, E.M. Cioran, Camus, Orwell, Joan Didion, Eldridge Cleaver, Denis Johnson, and others). Class time will be divided between a discussion of reading assignments and a workshop in which the group critiques student essays. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisites: a writing sample of three to five pages, a 200-level creative writing course, at least sophomore standing, and consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Not offered 2009-10. Economy Full course for one semester. This workshop is designed for students with considerable experience in writing short prose. Students will read stories and essays by published authors in order to learn how to manage effects economically, and to write with maximum efficiency and suggestion. Students will write one short piece of prose per week; critically responding to others' work, and the revision of one's own stories, will also be emphasized. Class sessions will be used for discussion of assigned readings and work in progress. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisites: a writing sample of three to five pages, one 200-level creative writing course, at least sophomore standing, and consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Conference.Investigating Narrative Genres Does the story change if the mode of storytelling changes This workshop will examine the question of how the narrative is affected by the use of three types of storytelling: the personal nonfiction essay, the short story, and the screenplay. Students will write a piece of nonfiction and follow its adaptation into fiction and then into screenplay. Students will also read and respond to each other's work, as well as the work of Didion, Hemingway, and A.S. Byatt (including a screen adaptation of her work), among others. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisites: a writing sample of three to five pages, one 200-level creative writing course, at least sophomore standing, and consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Conference. Linked Short Stories Full course for one semester. This workshop is designed for students with considerable experience in writing short fiction. Students will read published stories by writers such as Munro, Hemingway, Joyce, Dybek, Diaz, and Porter, that are linked by theme, character, plot, setting, and so on. Our goal will be to understand such connection as a generative device that lends dimension to fictional worlds. Student work will also focus on writing stories that are linked. Special emphasis will be given to individual voices, critically responding to others' work, and the revision of one's own stories. Class sessions will be used for discussion of assigned readings and work in progress. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisites: a writing sample of three to five pages, one 200-level creative writing course, at least sophomore standing, and/or consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.Mentors Full course for one semester. This workshop is designed for students with considerable experience in writing short fiction. Students will read several stories by one published author, such as O'Connor, Hemingway, Cheever, or Gaitskill, in order to learn from these writers by investigating their range. Special emphasis will be given to individual voices, critical response to others' work, and the revision of one's own stories. Class sessions will be used for discussion of assigned readings and work in progress. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisites: a writing sample of three to five pages, one 200-level creative writing course, at least sophomore standing, and consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Conferen

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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