Experiments in Storytelling: Essays, Art, and Games

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We tell stories everyday, we construct narratives for events, for our understandings of the people around us, for our own identities. Who are we and how do we fit into the world? Storytelling is at the heart of our human experience and it is unlimited in the forms it can take. This online seminar will explore a selection of storytelling traditions, both in and out of the creative writing space. Students will investigate the strategies employed by writers, artists, playwrights, game designers and will test these strategies out for themselves in their own storytelling. The aim is not for students to prioritize one style or strategy, but to approach the act of creation with a philosophy of radical play and discovery. No prerequisites required.