Craft of Fiction

We will not only consider how writers create the very real (though not necessarily realistic) landscapes we love to get lost in but also the myriad ways writers use place as more than a simple backdrop for action. This class is a hybrid of a creative writing workshop and a lit course; while the primary focus of our reading will be on fiction, the course is open to writers of all genres. The sorts of questions we will consider: What does it look like when a writer makes setting a focus of their work? How might place or space affect language, character, plot, form? How could a setting, like a character, develop over the course of a narrative? Writers whose work we will likely discuss: Steven Dunn, Anne Carson, Cristina Rivera Garza, Pip Adam, Jeff VanderMeer, etc. Open to graduate students and to undergraduates who have completed Fiction 2. Enrolment will be via the waitlist, and priority will be given to MFA students, seniors, and those in the Creative Writing concentration. This course satisfies a requirement for the creative writing concentration.
Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM; WR F

Craft of Fiction

WRITING 431

Section 01