CRWR 216 - 4x4: Studies in the Contemporary Short Story

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
In this reading- and writing-intensive class, students will study short fiction by four current practitioners of the form: Ottessa Moshfegh, Carmen Maria Machado, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Joy Williams. Students will examine the range of voices, techniques, formal strategies, and representations of identity these authors employ. By experimenting with some of these same approaches in their own fiction, students will expand their range in the short story form. The class features close readings, discussion, group work, exercises, formal assignments, and workshop.