IMF 51610 Fiction: Fairy Tale Fiction L W

Instructor

Gillian Parrish

Class Type

Lit & Craft [& Workshop in final fortnight]

Course Description

This course will open with a week of memoir essays by writers who share their personal histories with fairytales, giving us a chance to reflect on our own connections with the genre. We will go on to explore contemporary fairytale retellings by some of today's best loved literary and sci-fi/fantasy writers. We will also explore a middle-grade book that includes fairytale elements. While fairytales' primary gift to writers is in plotting and imagery, we will also include a fairytale figure of the witch to generate work. In our final fortnight together, we will workshop one of your flash pieces and turn to work that you select for us to explore.