English 206ff - Colloquium: Topics in Intermediate fiction Writing-Fact, Fiction and the Imagination

This workshop will develop skills for developing a research-base for creative writing and balancing a writer's emotional and imaginative material with texts, expressions and artifacts from the outer world. We will examine how bringing fact and imagination together enriches the culture and sustains the writer, and how to develop a writing practice that will "go the distance" over a lifetime. Writing sample and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12.