Sudden Fiction - Crafting Short Short Stories

Catalog description

This workshop introduces students to the art of writing "sudden" fiction -- short stories of less than 1,000 words. In addition to the basic elements of fiction, students will study symbolism, spare prose, selective omission and subtext as key devices of the genre. Students will read and analyze short fiction by writers including Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Jamaica Kinkaid and Joyce Carol Oates. They will participate in group critique and feedback as they craft original short stories. (This course is cross-listed with ENG 3615. Students will receive credit for either JRN 3615 or ENG 3615). These courses may substitute for each other in the F-replacement policy. This course may also be used as an elective within the English major and Tier III minor.