Reading and Writing Fiction Nonfiction: The Emergence of Prose
LIT4333.01
Course Description
Summary
The purpose of this workshop is to focus in on what brings us to writing. Beyond familiar objectives such as “I want to write a novel” or “I’m a poet working on poems” or “I want to write about the time this happened to me or to my family or in my country,” we will go further in to ask how do we want to feel while we’re writing? What do we want to experience at the level of the sentence as a paragraph builds? What do we see or feel in the moments before the sentence emerges and how do what we see or feel relate to the language we actually produce? How do we make space for ourselves when we are writing? To address these questions, we will read selected texts including Aidan Koch’s Spiral and Other Stories, Kate Briggs’ The Long Form, and Sofia Samatar’s Opacities as well as experiment with writing short fiction and the lyric essay. All students may apply for multiple 4000-level Reading and Writing Courses in the same term, but, once accepted, may only enroll in one 4000-level Reading and Writing course per term.Prerequisites
Please submit a 250-300 word statement in answer to "What interests you about this class?" and also a 2-3 pages of their own writing that excites them via via this form, by November 15, 2024. Students will be notified of acceptance into this class by November 19, 2024.
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Corequisites
Students are required to attend all Literature Evenings and Poetry at Ź events this term, commonly held at 7pm on most Wednesday evenings.