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IMF 51615 Fiction: Writing Your Novella or Short Novel L W

IMF 51615 Fiction: Writing Your Novella or Short Novel L W

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Instructor

Christopher Candice

Class Type 

Lit & Workshop

Course Description

This course is an intensive fiction writing workshop in which each student will produce several pieces of original work and submit them to the class for analysis, close reading, line editing, discussion of theme and content, and suggestions for revision. Workshop pieces will be submitted in professional format for any genre of short fiction/novel excerpt. This course also involves an intensive survey and analysis of twenty-first century literary and genre fiction and its authors, including the study and practice of close-reading techniques. Authors studied will include emerging fiction writers currently publishing important works, as well as contemporary masters in the field of both the literary and genre short novel and novella.

Textbook

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
Mariner Books; 1st edition 2018
ISBN 9781328764522

How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti
Picador
ISBN 9781250032447

Recitatif
Toni Morrison
Knopf 2022
ISBN 9780593315033

Address Unknown
Katherine Kressmann Taylor
Ecco 2021
ISBN 9780063068490

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage Reissue Edition 1989
ISBN 9780679723424

The Gambler and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Penguin Classics
ISBN 9780140455090