English 219RY - Topics in Creative Writing: 'Writing the Short Story'

In this workshop, we will read, discuss, and write and revise our own short fiction. Placing an emphasis on building literary community and practicing and decolonizing the "craft" of fiction, we will study the work of writers like Casey Plett, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Carmen Maria Machado, Edward P. Jones, Jamil Jan Kochai, etc., to better understand how the short story works both as a standalone world and part of the universe of the collection.

Prereq: ENGL-201.