A workshop devoted to the art and science of a funny story well told. Students will analyze comic fiction, film, and classic television, and create their own short, comic works, drawing on personal experience and real-world observation. They'll learn the basics of screenplay format and scene design, and hone close observation and critical thinking skills. This course satisfies the Film and Media Studies screenwriting requirement. 220.105 OR 225.06 recommended but not required. Both majors and non-majors welcome.

• Days/Times: MTTh 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/9
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Green, Regan E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Enjoy the opportunity to develop your creative writing skills. You will work in both fiction and poetry. Through a combination of robust discussion, writing exercises, and substantial feedback, you will learn about imagery, voice, narrative structure, and other aspects of the writer’s craft. The reading list will include a diverse range of contemporary authors. There will be a strong emphasis on collaborative workshopping, during which you will discuss one another’s works in progress.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Atherton, Chase
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 29/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

Enjoy the opportunity to develop your creative writing skills. You will work in both fiction and poetry. Through a combination of robust discussion, writing exercises, and substantial feedback, you will learn about imagery, voice, narrative structure, and other aspects of the writer’s craft. The reading list will include a diverse range of contemporary authors. There will be a strong emphasis on collaborative workshopping, during which you will discuss one another’s works in progress.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Atherton, Chase
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 33/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

Enjoy the opportunity to develop your creative writing skills. You will work in both fiction and poetry. Through a combination of robust discussion, writing exercises, and substantial feedback, you will learn about imagery, voice, narrative structure, and other aspects of the writer’s craft. The reading list will include a diverse range of contemporary authors. There will be a strong emphasis on collaborative workshopping, during which you will discuss one another’s works in progress.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Thea
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 33/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

"We left what we felt at what we saw,” the poet Wallace Stevens once wrote, suggesting writing involves a direct response to our experiences of reality. In this class, we’ll look exclusively at writing which takes on what hasn’t been seen, and hasn’t been felt. Through reading works of science fiction, magical realism, gothic literature, and speculative fiction, students will investigate how the unreal can still speak to our experiences and perceptions of the real. Additionally, students will get the chance to craft their own fantastical worlds through regular writing assignments. Tales of time travelers, haunted houses, unreal languages, and reimagined cities will be covered. Readings will include selections from Paul Beatty, Octavia Butler, Italo Calvino, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yoko Ogawa, and Mary Shelley.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This creative writing workshop offers both new and experienced writers a chance to spend five weeks in Rome, making an artistic exploration of the Eternal City that inspired Keats, Shelley, Goethe, and, more recently, Jhumpa Lahiri. Students are welcome to work in prose, poetry, or both. Though the emphasis of the program will be the creation of new work, students will participate in a mult-genre workshop where they will receive feedback from classmates and the instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

Using literature as our primary lens, in this First-Year Seminar we will explore our complex relationships with food, considering it as both material fact and literary symbol. We will read prose and poetry by writers such as Chang Rae Lee, Kevin Young, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto, and Joy Harjo, engaging issues of food and community, food labor and production, climate change, and more. As part of our explorations, we’ll spotlight aspects of Baltimore food culture and history, and students will be asked to examine and share their own personal and cultural relationships with food. Assignments will include creative writing exercises that draw on both research and personal experience.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Snider, Bruce H
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

A picture is worth 1000 words, or so goes the old saying. This hands-on writing workshop, explores the often-overlooked importance of TEXT in award-winning graphic novels and children's picture books. Over the course of the semester, we will delve into a wide range of topics, from understanding the relationship between image and text and thinking cinematically, to effective techniques for storyboarding and creating forceful dialogue. And like all good writers, we will work on developing the kind of rich characters, strong dialogue, and compelling themes that captivate readers. To enrich our writing efforts, we will embark on various outings during the semester. These will include visits to an illustrator's studio and an independent bookstore specializing in graphic novels. We will also interact with an array of professional writers and editors both in class and at extra-curricular events. The central goal of this course is to build a community through writing. No prior experience in creative writing or visual art is necessary. All that is required is enthusiasm for the topic and a willingness to share your work with others.

• Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Celenza, Anna H
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Unlike Disney's talking teapots and candlesticks, ""real life"" objects can't tell their own stories. Through research and writing, however, we can ""animate"" and contextualize art and artifacts with our words, illuminating the people who made and used those objects, particularly those whose own voices have been historically marginalized. How can creative writing bring the past to life both imaginatively and responsibly? How do writers choose and use literary techniques to reckon with history? Poems we will examine and discuss include ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" by John Keats, ""Voyage of the Sable Venus"" by Robin Coste Lewis, ""The Museum of Obsolescence"" by Tracy K. Smith, ""In the British Museum"" by Thomas Hardy, ""mulberry fields"" by Lucille Clifton, and ""How to Look at Pictures"" by Rebecca Morgan Frank. This course is an experiential collaboration between the Writing Seminars* and the Homewood Museum*, where students will explore the museum's collection and curate a public exhibition featuring their writing. *By way of introduction, The Writing Seminars is Johns Hopkins University’s creative writing department, offering both a major and a minor to undergraduate students, as well as a Master of Fine Arts graduate degree; Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum is an early nineteenth-century National Historic Landmark site focusing on the enslaved families who lived and labored on the land that would later become the university’s main campus. With a focus on early American decorative arts, Homewood’s collection provides students with the opportunity to have hands-on experience with museum objects and to consider the role of museums and antiques in a new and creative light.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Malech, Dora Rachel
• Room: Krieger Laverty
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Scott, Kat Leonia
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Fletcher, Zachary S.
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Coates, Jainey
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Owens, Jameson Grant
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Coates, Jainey
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Owens, Jameson Grant
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Coates, Jainey
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Owens, Jameson Grant
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Ologunro, Olakunle Oladipupo
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Clark, Cora Willemtje
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Ologunro, Olakunle Oladipupo
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Pham, Alexander Quyen
• Room: Maryland 109
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Clark, Cora Willemtje
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Ologunro, Olakunle Oladipupo
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Yuan, Jess Sarah
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Clark, Cora Willemtje
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Danklin, Deirdre M
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: T 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Danklin, Deirdre M
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: W 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Lewty, Jane
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Singh, Vanessa
• Room: Shaffer 2
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Lewty, Jane
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Steidle, Brianna Caye
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Steidle, Brianna Caye
• Room: Bloomberg 178
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Green, Regan E
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Green, Regan E
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Jensen, Carlee Alexa
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Jensen, Carlee Alexa
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kim, Jane S.
• Room: Bloomberg 278
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Jensen, Carlee Alexa
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this introductory course, students will ultimately create their own short podcasts around stories that are meaningful to them and their intended audiences. Students will enact principles of listener-centered design, they’ll work to find stories worth telling, and they’ll learn to tell those stories powerfully. This course will build competency in recording and editing techniques, interviewing skills, creating story structure, and understanding the potential social impact of documentary work. Students will also study current monetization strategies in the booming podcast market and learn how to find, keep, and grow an audience.

• Days/Times: W 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Henkin, Aaron
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces the foundational strategies for writing literary fiction and nonfiction. Drawing on a diverse selection of literary models, students will engage in “creative experiments,” eventually submitting a short story or literary essay for class discussion and feedback. AS.220.105 can be substituted for AS.220.108.

• Days/Times: Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Shaffer 202
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room: Krieger Laverty
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Russell, Lauren M
• Room: Latrobe 120
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Williamson, Greg W
• Room: Latrobe 107
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

In this class, we'll explore various strategies that poets have used when writing longer verse narratives. Readings will include contemporary work by Anne Carson, Christopher Logue, and Claudia Rankine, as well as historical epics such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Gawain and the Green Knight. Although this class is a readings course, not a workshop, students will have the opportunity to develop narrative poems of their own.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room: Latrobe 120
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET, WRIT-READ

An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kim, Kyeong-Soo
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ

This course explores the art and craft of the personal essay. Deriving from the French essayer, to attempt, students bring a sense of investigation to the characteristics, presence, and quality of ideas, cultural zeitgeist, and the human experience. Through personal narrative exploration, essayists write toward universal themes (family, loss, belonging, social justice) and experiment with modes and forms of creative nonfiction. Students will employ research, explore personal experience, and develop their own voice, style, and storytelling craft. Students will interrogate the self and the self in the world, shaping the “I” on the page. The course builds on material covered in Introduction to Fiction & Poetry and/or Introduction to Fiction & Nonfiction and will prepare students for advanced study. This readings-based course is also writing-intensive, including in-class exercises, brief creative posts, essay drafts, revisions, and workshop. Readings/models for the course include authors Seneca, Sei Shonagon, Michel de Montaigne, James Baldwin, Melissa Febos, Vivian Gornick, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, JoAnn Beard, Zadie Smith, Jia Tolentino, Mark Twain, and more.

• Days/Times: T 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will look at the way poets are responding to the climate crisis; it will concentrate on contemporary work, but set this in context by comparing it to ‘nature poetry’ written since the Romantic period. There will also be a chance for students to write and discuss their own poems on this subject.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Motion, Andrew P
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET, MSCH-HUM

This intermediate fiction workshop will explore the use of point of view in the short story, considering the narrative reasons we might choose a particular perspective (and consciousness) when writing. We'll take a close look at published short fiction, examining the ways specific points of view impact our experience as readers, and we'll analyze the various strategies we can learn from these works. Students will share their work throughout the semester, both in small groups and in a larger workshop.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Tenorio, Lysley A
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

First of all, what’s the difference? We’ll begin by discussing these labels and the various works these labels might illuminate. Ian McEwan writes of ‘the novella’: Let’s take, as an arbitrary measure, something that is between twenty and forty thousand words, long enough for a reader to inhabit a world or a consciousness and be kept there, short enough to be read in a sitting or two." McEwan promptly goes on to name “The Dead” – 15,000 words – as “the great novella.” Clearly, rules are made to be broken. In this class we’ll read approximately one novella/short novel per week. Students should expect to write a brief critical response every week, and to give two presentations, one on a selection from the syllabus, and one on a selection of their own choosing that they feel exemplifies the label ‘novella.’

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Choi, Susan
• Room: Bloomberg 274
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-READ, WRIT-FICT

In this class we will experiment in genre bending, reading and writing hybrid works that thoughtfully push past the boundaries of genre toward new ways of writing, thinking, knowing, and creating. Readings may include Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay,” Jean Toomer’s Cane, and Justin Torres’s Blackouts, among others, and will consider influences reaching as far back as Basho’s 17th-century Narrow Road to the Deep North. We will nurture verse that appears amidst prose; prose that arrives as poetry; fiction that incorporates images, documents, and poetic interventions; and writing that shapeshifts across genres and sometimes mediums, defying easy classification. As writers and as readers, we will bring our training within genres to work across, between, and beyond genres.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Russell, Lauren M
• Room: Croft Hall B32
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-READ, WRIT-FICT, WRIT-POET

This course is primarily a workshop; students will each write and workshop two short stories. Additional shorter writing assignments will focus on the management of time in fiction. We will consider how and when writers make use of time shifts within a story, how choosing the point in time from which a story is being told shapes its tone and structure, and how to move through time frames without creating confusion. We’ll also read and discuss published work that uses time in interesting ways, including writing by Alice Munro, Lauren Groff, Ling Ma, Edward P. Jones, Yiyun Li, David Means, Jamel Brinkley, Alice Sola Kim, Jennine Capó Crucet, and Virginia Woolf.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Evans, Danielle V
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

This intermediate workshop will focus on rendering perspective and examine the passage of time within fiction. In addition to exploring questions of psychic distance and reliability, we will examine how point of view comes to bear on voice, character, the management of sympathy, and narrative structure. We will also look at how the temporal inflects point of view—how time comes to bear on not just the story itself but the way it is told. Students will write and workshop stories and discuss published fiction. Diverse and contemporary readings to include work by Mary Gaitskill, Ling Ma, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Charles Yu.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Robinson, Shannon L
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Poetic Forms I fulfills one of the Intermediate requirements for The Writing Seminars Major. It deals with rhyme, meter, traditional forms, and ad hoc forms of students' own making. Whether you are a poet, novelist, song writer, science writer, or dramatist, this course will help you master lines and sentences even better.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Williamson, Greg W
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

This hands-on performance workshop, combining literary and theatrical practice, will look closely at what makes a performance or reading compelling, clear, and resonant. Through textual analysis, vocal technique, and group discussion, students will create a pliant and powerful reading style to best serve their work. The course includes regular writing assignments in poetry and fiction and weekly performance and group discussion.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Yezzi, David D
• Room: Bloomberg 176
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-POET

This course will survey the long history of poetry which deals with mourning and ask participants to write their own contributions to the tradition. To this end, each class will be divided into two parts: in the first we’ll discuss three poems (one from the distant past, one from the more recent past, and one from our own time) which deal with various kinds of loss - including the loss of loved ones, of notable public figures, of cherished landscapes and cities, and of pets and other sorts of creature. In the second half of each class, two people will present their own work for discussion and analysis. Our set book will be The Penguin Book of Elegy, which I have co-edited with Stephen Regan.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Motion, Andrew P
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

Students will write and workshop two short stories and one work of flash fiction. In addition, students will read and write a 2-3 page critical paper on one story collection of their own choice, selected from a list of recently published options. The syllabus will include some selections by the instructor, along with one story from each book chosen by a student in the course, creating a collaborative brief survey of contemporary fiction. In reading discussions and workshop, we'll consider the intentions of the writer and think about how a story is shaped by both the writer's particular voice and interests and by the cultural moment in which the writer is working.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Evans, Danielle V
• Room: Gilman 35
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/10
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

While the focus of the course will be workshopping student stories (each student will workshop two to three stories during the semester), we’ll also discuss debut stories by first-time published authors, examining how their stories are distinguished by their subject matter, their use of craft and technique, and how they might speak to the times we live—and write—in now. Completion of Intermediate Fiction is required for admission.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Tenorio, Lysley A
• Room: Gilman 35
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/10
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Class reads the writings of scientists to explore what their words would have meant to them and their readers. Discussion will focus on the shifting scientific/cultural context throughout history. Authors include Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, Crick and Watson.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Panek, Richard
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR

A seminar and workshop in playwriting with Dr. Joe Martin, playwright and dramaturge. Student writers, developing their plays, will learn how to open up to the creative process, “brainstorm,” refine their work, and shape it toward an act of artistic communication. Writer’s techniques, such as attending to plot or “story,” delineation of character, creating effective “dialog,” even overcoming “writer’s block,” will be addressed. This course is designed to be complementary to – not a replacement for – playwriting classes in the Writing Seminars.

• Days/Times: Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Martin, Joe
• Room: Krieger Laverty
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this course we will explore the basic principles of visual storytelling in narrative film as they apply to the design, creation, and revision of the screenplay. Specifically, we will focus on learning the craft of screenwriting — strategies, processes, and philosophies that writers can develop, practice, and rely upon as they progress through a series of screenwriting exercises and write three short screenplays, which will be critiqued in-class during weekly table reads and with the Instructor (one-on-one) during office hours. Select professional screenplays will be read and analyzed — and clips from select films viewed — to further explore what works well on the page, and how it translates to working well onscreen. Final Draft screenwriting software is required; a FREE 18-week trial will be made available for all students who don’t already have Final Draft.

• Days/Times: T 11:00AM - 1:30PM
• Instructor: Sharman, Russell L
• Room: The Centre 206
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT

This course will explore strategy and process for developing a short screenplay from pre-existing literary or journalistic source material (short story, news/feature article, etc.). By exploring several “case studies” — feature films and the source material that inspired them — students will identify the practical strategies employed by professional screenwriters with the goal of employing such strategies with their own screenplay adaptations. Bulk of class will focus on designing, writing, and rewriting a 20-30 page screenplay, and sharing multiple drafts with the class (and with the professor one-on-one) for critique over the course of the semester. Each student should have 2-3 pieces of material under consideration for possible adaptation by the start of class. Discussions from time to time will also touch on the business of screenwriting. (Scripts and clips often selected from American films spanning the 60s through the 2000s.) Students will be required to purchase a license for Final Draft screenwriting software for $99. Students are expected to have previously completed AS.061.205 or another lower level screenwriting class.

• Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
• Room: The Centre 206
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Witherspoon, Sebastian
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Silbaugh, Lucy
• Room: Gilman 400
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Piña, Ingrid
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Kim, Jane S.
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Passantino, Paige
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Beltrano, Adriana Suzanna
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Lee, Iris Yejin
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Guru, Yastika
• Room: Hodson 305
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Suazo, Ivan
• Room: Latrobe 120
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Yuan, Jess Sarah
• Room: Shriver Hall Board Room
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Owens, Jameson Grant
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Jensen, Carlee Alexa
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Coates, Jainey
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Jensen, Carlee Alexa
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Owens, Jameson Grant
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Coates, Jainey
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Danklin, Deirdre M
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Coates, Jainey
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Owens, Jameson Grant
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: W 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Lewty, Jane
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Clark, Cora Willemtje
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Scott, Kat Leonia
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Clark, Cora Willemtje
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Singh, Vanessa
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Clark, Cora Willemtje
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Fletcher, Zachary S.
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Pham, Alexander Quyen
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Ologunro, Olakunle Oladipupo
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Bloomberg 176
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Ologunro, Olakunle Oladipupo
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Shriver Hall 104
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Ologunro, Olakunle Oladipupo
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: T 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Danklin, Deirdre M
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: W 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: Th 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Jensen, Carlee Alexa
• Room: Hodson 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Williamson, Greg W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.

• Days/Times: T 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Green, Regan E
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Green, Regan E
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

The aim of the course is twofold: to give a sketch of the history of English-language autobiographical writing, and to encourage students to work on their own autobiographical projects. To this end, the weekly meetings will be divided into two parts: in the first part, I’ll be allocating three extracts from existing autobiographies for discussion (some relatively ancient, some modern), and in the second part we'll discuss extracts from the on-going work of two class members. In other words, applicants to the course should expect to read and comment on several pieces of existing work each week, as well as undertaking a semester-long autobiographical project of their own devising.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Motion, Andrew P
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The United States incarcerates more people than any other democratic country in the world; Baltimore City has the highest incarceration rate in Maryland, with 1 in every 100 residents locked up in a state prison. In this publicly-engaged course, students will learn about mass incarceration in the United States—its history, its dysfunction, and its current impact on the Baltimore community. In addition to reading and reflecting on personal narratives from the American Prison Writing Archive (housed at the JHU Sheridan Libraries), we will interact with organizers, activists, educators, and writers working with and on behalf of currently and formerly incarcerated people. In partnership with a Baltimore reentry program serving formerly incarcerated women, students will perform interviews and assist individual memoir projects.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Robinson, Shannon L
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE, CDS-EWC

An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kim, Kyeong-Soo
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ, CDS-MB

This course explores the art and craft of the personal essay. Deriving from the French essayer, to attempt, students bring a sense of investigation to the characteristics, presence, and quality of ideas, cultural zeitgeist, and the human experience. Through personal narrative exploration, essayists write toward universal themes (family, loss, belonging, social justice) and experiment with modes and forms of creative nonfiction. Students will employ research, explore personal experience, and develop their own voice, style, and storytelling craft. Students will interrogate the self and the self in the world, shaping the “I” on the page. The course builds on material covered in Introduction to Fiction & Poetry and/or Introduction to Fiction & Nonfiction and will prepare students for advanced study. This readings-based course is also writing-intensive, including in-class exercises, brief creative posts, essay drafts, revisions, and workshop. Readings/models for the course include authors Seneca, Sei Shonagon, Michel de Montaigne, James Baldwin, Melissa Febos, Vivian Gornick, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, JoAnn Beard, Zadie Smith, Jia Tolentino, Mark Twain, and more.

• Days/Times: M 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

In this course we will read work by Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Nella Larsen, Jesse Redmon Fauset, Suzan-Lori Parks, Deesha Philyaw, Shannon Sanders, Dawnie Walton and others. We will consider how to read Black women behaving “badly”, or resisting respectability politics, in a historical and contemporary context. How have writers balanced a desire for complexity, agency, and artistic freedom with practical and ethical questions about representation and stereotypes? Students will write one midterm paper on the assigned reading and complete one creative writing project. Students may choose the subject of their creative assignment, but it should engage the broad questions of the course: what makes protagonists behaving badly interesting, and what ethical or structural questions are relevant to how we portray them?

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Evans, Danielle V
• Room: Gilman 38G
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ

In this writing workshop, we will study a variety of creative nonfiction essays by a diverse group of writers including James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and more. Drawing on the narrative strategies of memoirists as well as the research practices and expository methods of journalists, students will explore new ways to enrich and deepen their own creative work.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Snider, Bruce H
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

In Contemporary Poetic Forms, we will look at exciting, mostly younger poets writing in a wide array of metrical forms. From Anthony Hecht to Erica Dawson, you will read a book a week and write eleven poems, and the assignments will be keyed but not beholden to those challenging authors.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Williamson, Greg W
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

This hands-on performance workshop, combining literary and theatrical practice, will look closely at what makes a performance or reading compelling, clear, and resonant. Through textual analysis, vocal technique, and group discussion, students will create a pliant and powerful reading style to best serve their work. The course includes regular writing assignments in poetry and fiction and weekly performance and group discussion.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Yezzi, David D
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-POET

The capstone course in poetry writing. Consideration of various poetic models in discussion, some assigned writing, primarily workshop of student poems. Students will usually complete a "collection" poems.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Yezzi, David D
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

Chekhov famously said that the work of fiction isn't to provide neat answers but to ask interesting questions. In this advanced workshop, we'll look at how to raise the kinds of questions that keep readers engaged and turning pages. We'll read work by classic and contemporary writers, possibly including Alice Munro, ZZ Packer, Eudora Welty, Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, Carmen Maria Machado, Anton Chekhov, and others.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Noel, Katharine
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

In this Community-Based Learning course, students will read and write fiction and creative nonfiction, in partnership with high-school writers from Baltimore public schools. Based on classroom discussion, students will put learning into practice by engaging in community conversation and collaboration. Participation in some events outside of class time will be required.

• Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Tenorio, Lysley A
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE

Students who have completed the fall class "Teaching Creative Writing in Baltimore Schools" are eligible for this class in the spring semester. As Teaching Fellows, students continue to work alongside writing teachers from the non-profit organization Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS) to plan and lead creative writing workshops in local public elementary and middle schools. Class discussions will move into deeper explorations of topics like student-centered pedagogy, community building, and educational equity. Teaching Fellows will have opportunities for greater leadership at their worksites and will create resources for benefit of their students and future generations of Teaching Fellows.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Noel, Katharine
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/12
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE

Class reads the writings of scientists to explore what their words would have meant to them and their readers. Discussion will focus on the shifting scientific/cultural context throughout history. Authors include Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, Crick and Watson.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Panek, Richard
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR

Students will build on previous work in the major by completing a project of sustained length, depth, and cohesion (15 - 25 pages). This capstone course is open by application.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Snider, Bruce H
• Room: Bloomberg 178
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

International voices will combine the workshopping of poems by students with a study of contemporary poems written by black British writers and British writers in dialect, African-American writers, Caribbean writers, and Indian and South African poets who are writing in English. The study of broad themes and subjects will be combined with a particular appreciation of linguistic and acoustic matters - which means among other things that time will be spent listening to and evaluating recordings of the poets concerned. Writing Seminars Majors Only

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Motion, Andrew P
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-READ, WRIT-POET

A course in the composition of a novella, short-story collection, or section of a novel. Students will build on previous work in the major by writing and revising a project of 50 to 60 pages of fiction. This capstone course is open by application.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Puchner, Eric P
• Room: Greenhouse 113
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT