The program consists of an Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarter workshop. This workshop focuses on discussion and critique of currently published fiction, as well as the participants' own work. The class is limited to 15 participants per section. Participants should already have completed a number of short stories or chapters of a novel. A workshop format is used extensively.
Students analyze elements of several stories by exemplary authors.
They also examine how these elements apply to the novel. Workshop II Students continue their writing, with a focus on beginnings, obligatory breaks, authority and pace, point of view, narrative voice and flashbacks. They identify the literature by others who illustrate an effective or intriguing method of dealing with the topic under discussion. Students read and edit all workshop manuscripts and prepare critiques. This workshop continues and extends the ongoing practice in writing and close reading of literary fiction.