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Creative Writing Course Offerings Fall 2023

ENGL 3900 
Creative Writing: Intro Fiction

Time: Wednesdays  7-9:30pm, A3033
Instructor: Lisa Moore
Contact: lisam@mun.ca

Course Description:

English 3900 is a seminar course where students will be given an opportunity to workshop fiction-in-progress. We will critique new fiction each week, discussing writing techniques such as the use of point-of-view, exposition, dialogue, plot, language, the art of showing rather than telling, voice, and dramatic scene. 

Students must submit an admission portfolio of between 1000-1500 words. The portfolio must be comprised of short fiction – and may include a few short pieces, a complete short story, or an excerpt from a longer work of fiction. 

As class size is limited to ensure everybody’s work gets thorough attention, admission will be based on the portfolio. Please submit portfolios to: lisam@mun.ca 

Portfolio Deadline: August 1, 2023. 

 

ENGL 3901

Creative Writing: Intro Poetry

Time: Wednesdays 1-3:30 pm via Webex (Remote Delivery)

Instructor: Dr. Michelle Porter

Contact: michelleporter@mun.ca 

Course Description:

English 3901 introduces students to the craft of poetry through its oral storytelling foundations. In this workshop class, students will be invited to play with approaches to poetry and explore the narrative reaches of the genre. Students will examine techniques used by a range of poets and storytellers with a focus on Indigenous poets. We will pay particular attention to the way story brings connection and urgency to different poetic forms and different ways story can be brought into a regular poetry practice. Students will learn approaches to drafting poems and responding to each other’s work, including the Metis visiting approach. Admission to this course will be based on the instructor's evaluation of the student's writing in the form of a writing portfolio submitted in the weeks prior to the beginning of the course. 

Please send a portfolio of up to 5 pages of your creative work in poetry to michelleporter@mun.ca. Class size will be limited.

Portfolio deadline August 1, 2023.

 

ENGL 4912 
Creative Writing: Advanced Playwriting

Time: Tuesdays 7-9:30pm, A3033
Instructor: Ed Kavanagh

Contact: e.kavanagh@mun.ca 

Course Description: 

This course is conducted as a workshop using models of contemporary dramatic writing and the students’ own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

The goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to do in-depth work in playwriting, emphasizing both basic creative writing skills and dramatic writing techniques. It focuses primarily on the student’s weekly writing assignments and offers examination, critique and exploration of the style, form, and content of each student’s ongoing creative process. Each student’s work will be critiqued by the class and revised for submission at the end of the term.

Topics will include: exploring dialogue; dramatic monologue; plotting; genre and style; autobiography; stage business; practicalities of the theatre; development of narrative line; and characterization.

Please send an admission portfolio of 5-10 pages of creative work that includes dialogue to e.kavanagh@mun.ca Class size will be limited. 

Portfolio deadline August 1, 2023.