Welcome! Introduction to Creative Writing will hopefully serve as a site for your own writing goals. We’ll explore several genres and their interpretations and enactments, including poetry, long fiction, short fiction, Young Adult, and hybrid forms. Through discussion of published works and what they may evoke in us as readers based on our own experiences, we’ll use the words of others as a springboard for our own writing lives and projects. This course focuses heavily on the connections between reading and writing, and between writing and remembering/thinking/living/imagining. There will be a workshop component of the course in addition to a submitted portfolio due at the end of the term.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
- Instructor of record: Taylor Lewis