English 206 - Intermediate Fiction Writing: Factual Fiction

A writer’s workshop that focuses on sharpening and expanding each student’s fiction writing skills, as well as broadening and deepening her understanding of the short and long-form work. Exercises will concentrate on generative writing using a range of techniques to feed one's fictional imagination. Students will analyze and discuss each other's stories, and examine thewritings of established authors. Writing sample and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12: Even the most imaginative fiction is grounded in a tangible world, and writing it well requires skilled observation as well as expression. ENG 206 is a creative-writing course that will advance students' fiction-writing abilities by refining techniques of observation. Students will report on such aspects as "process" and "place" and will employ that reporting in composing short stories, using gathered real-world facts to bring fictional pieces into focus and greater brilliance. Readings and assignments will explore the interplay of fact and imagination in fiction. Finished stories produced by students will be work-shopped in class.

Writing Sample Required.