Professor Catie Rosemurgy
Tuesday 5:00pm-7:50pm
While many creative writing workshops focus on critical feedback and revision, this class emphasizes the generation of new material. Students are encouraged to dive into the kind of writing they most want to do. The course is open to both poets and fiction writers and focuses on the habits that sustain a productive writing practice: committing to a schedule, cultivating creativity, keeping a reading journal, and leaving your comfort zone. We will write and read together as we explore new approaches to character, place, structure, point-of-view, and narrative time. Our goals will be to create as much new work as we can and to let our writing become a process of discovery.
Students will read published work by contemporary authors, write and revise their own poems/stories, and provide oral and written responses to their classmates’ work. The course balances discussion of student work with lecture/discussion of published work and emphasizes the connection between thoughtful reading and literary writing.