Fiction! Essays! Creative non-fiction! Academic writing! Journalism! Poetry! Experimental Writing! You choose what to write about and the form of your writing. Launch into your writing projects in a summer-friendly, fully-remote schedule for all writers at any stage. Beginning to advanced writers are welcome.
Develop your projects and explore your writing process in this craft-intensive program. You'll have regular opportunities to share your work and discuss ideas and process with peers. Class time (on Zoom) will include short seminars on reading, workshops to sharpen skills and generate ideas, writing exercises and prompts, and time to focus on your individual projects.
The goal of this program is to help you deepen your engagement with your own writing, build critical reading skills, and refine your editorial eyes and ears. To do this, we'll work together to examine stories, essays, and poems and figure out what makes them tick. You'll learn close, creative reading practices, and, in short, learn to read like a writer while also receiving individualized faculty feedback on your writing projects. Along with a number of assigned readings that will be posted online, students will need to purchase Maps of Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, by Peter Turchi.
Our summer-friendly schedule includes regular class sessions each Tuesday and Thursday evening, 6:00 to 8:50 p.m (online), with additional asynchronous activities, one-to-one meetings, and lots of time to write. Twice in each session, we'll have online Saturday "Retreat" sessions, designed for intensive focus on writing with structured support and discussion (Saturdays online, 10:00-4:00: July 6 and 20; August 10 and 24).
This offering is remote, allowing students to fully participate from nearby or far away. Students should have access to a computing device appropriate for simultaneously using Zoom, Canvas, and a word-processor. Participation in live (online) sessions is required.
This full-time program can be taken for 8 credits first session, 8 credits second session, or 16 credits for the full summer quarter.
Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:
8 - Literary Arts
8 - Writing [credit details determined by individual projects]
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Academic Details
writing, editing, publishing, scholarship, communications.