IMF 51615 Fiction: Writing Your Novella or Short Novel L W

Instructor

Christopher Candice

Class Type

Lit & Workshop

Course Description

This course is an intensive fiction writing workshop in which each student will produce several pieces of original work and submit them to the class for analysis, close reading, line editing, discussion of theme and content, and suggestions for revision. Workshop pieces will be submitted in professional format for any genre of short fiction/novel excerpt. This course also involves an intensive survey and analysis of twenty-first century literary and genre fiction and its authors, including the study and practice of close-reading techniques. Authors studied will include emerging fiction writers currently publishing important works, as well as contemporary masters in the field of both the literary and genre short novel and novella.