Introduction to Creative Writing
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- Theresa Hottel /
- Aquest curs s'imparteix en: Anglès
- Els exercicis es poden lliurar en: Anglès
Do you want to learn more about the possibilities and tools of creative writing and practice applying them to your own work? Do you seek to learn and grow in a community of interested peers? This multigenre introductory course is ideal for writers who want to get started and build knowledge, dipping their toes in the water, as well as for more experienced writers who seek feedback and want to refine their craft.
Over 8 weeks, we’ll briefly cover poetry, flash literature, scripts & screenplays, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We’ll read theory and examples, discovering tools to excel in each of these genres, and also how each one grants us insights into the others. Participants will learn basic writing elements and critically analyze creative texts by masters. Additionally, participants will have 2 workshop opportunities, submitting their work on a formal schedule for class discussion.
Ultimately, our aim is to explore and create richly imagined, technically elegant writing that grabs readers’ attention. We’ll rigorously analyze published work, building our writerly perspectives: asking ourselves what effect a text has on us as readers, and then seeking to understand what choices the author made to achieve this effect. We’ll turn this same questioning eye to our own work as we write and discuss, discovering what is possible on the page.
Grups de curs de l'edició actual
- Read and practice writing in the main genres of creative writing
- Deepen theoretical knowledge of basic creative writing elements
- Learn to read like an editor: noticing creative choices in a work, including how they affect a text and how they could be adjusted
- Gain feedback on work in progress
About half of class time will be devoted to readings of selected literature, discussions on craft and form, and informal exercises, in order to learn some tools of creative writing. The other half will be spent in workshop, in which you will submit your own writing on a formal schedule and engage in thorough, critical discussions on each work-in-progress as we describe how the work currently functions and brainstorm on what it might do differently. By being attentive, thoughtful, and passionate readers of others’ work, we will become better readers of our own drafts, and, ultimately, better writers of the work we dream to produce.
(Excerpts)
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Apollo
- Akers, William, Your Screenplay Sucks
- Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Barthelme, Donald, The School
- Carson, Anne, The Glass Essay
- Charles, Jos, feeld
- Diaz, Natalie, Grief Work
- Dillard, Annie, Write Till You Drop
- Gass, William, Order of Insects
- Glaser, Rachel B. Pee on Water
- Glück, Louise, The Wild Iris & Gretel in Darkness
- Hayes, Terrance, American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin
- Jenkins, Barry, Moonlight
- Kelly, Donika, Self-portrait as a Door
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, Hell-heaven
- La Plante, Alice, The Making of a Story
- Lin, Tao, A poem written by a bear
- Lorca, Federico García, Ditty of First Desire
- McKee, Robert, Story
- Park Hong, Cathy, Minor Feelings
- Rich, Adrienne, Nights and Days
- Russell, Karen, Engineering Impossible Architectures
- Salesses, Matthew, Craft in the Real World
- Saunders, George, Rise, Baby, Rise
- Siken, Richard, Scheherazade, Visible World
- Szybist, Mary, There interposed a-
- Torres, Justin, Lessons
- Truby, John, Anatomy of Story
- Vuong, Ocean, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
Els camps marcats amb asterisc (*) són obligatoris
Els camps marcats amb asterisc (*) són obligatoris
Preu curs :
Si hi participes a l'aula
419,50 €
(El preu curs inclou la quota de soci de l'Ateneu Barcelonés corresponent a la durada del curs)
Si participes en lÃnia
347,70 €
(Aquesta modalitat d'inscripció no requereix ser soci de l'Ateneu Barcelonès)
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