ENGL 301-01, Advanced Fiction Writing, Fall 2005

Abstract

We will workshop four stories per week. Your stories will be due according to a rotating system, so that you come up for discussion about every five weeks. You will submit your stories electronically to me as an email attachment on the Tuesday preceding that Thursday’s workshop. Please use your last name as the title for each submission! I will then compile all four pieces into a single anonymous document, which I will then email back to you. Each of you is responsible for printing out that week’s packet. Moreover, you will write at least a half-page of single-spaced comments for each story up for discussion. You can either write these comments on the packet printout itself or type them out on your own: the former method is easier, the latter option is more conscientious. These comments—both those you compose and those you verbalize in class during workshop—will factor into my evaluation of your final fiction portfolio, so take this process seriously.