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• January 20, 2025 - April 17, 2025
• Writing appointments will run on a reduced schedule from mid-May to mid-August 2025

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September 24 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

The Surprising and Inevitable Art of the Glosa

Learn from other poets and experiment with new uses of language by writing a glosa!  The glosa is a structured poetic tradition that involves borrowing lines from other texts. This art of “glossing”—elaborating or commenting on a text—allows writers to deepen their relationship to other poems, consider the ways their writing is in conversation with other writers, and build on other writers’ ideas.  Please bring four lines from a poem or song to this workshop to try out this form of poetry.

This in-person workshop will be delivered by visiting instructor, Anna Lee-Popham.

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7000011 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Course Description

Find your voice and get started as a writer. Join a community of like-minded individuals and develop your writing talent. Highly recommended as a starting point for creative writing knowledge and skills development, Introduction to Creative Writing familiarizes you with the possibilities of the writing craft and its many forms.

Learn fundamental vocabulary, workshop practices, and basic writing skills that you can apply to any genre. Explore choices of point of view in fiction, basic requirements of narrative scene, dialogue, narrative structure in fiction and nonfiction, techniques of lively writing, metaphoric language and poetic forms. Techniques for generating material and finding a voice, along with some practical information about publishing and the writing life are also covered.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize creative writing elements used by published authors in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama
• Demonstrate the use of creative writing elements in your writing
• Create and maintain a portfolio of your writing
• Give and receive effective writing feedback
• Develop a writing practice with other writers
• Identify with “the writing life”

Course Topics

• Drama: Subtext, Conflict, and Momentum in Dialogue
• Fiction I: Story and Scene
• Fiction II: Point of View and Style
• Poetry I: Formal Poetry
• Poetry II: Elements of Free Verse
• Creative Non-Fiction: Basics
• Structure & Revision
• Publishing and Performing

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Additional requirements.

There are no prerequisites for this course. You may take this as an individual course or choose to complete the Creative Writing Certificate . This is one of two required courses for the certificate.

Your final portfolio will consist of one short memoir (a maximum of 500 words), one short story (a maximum of 1,000 words), one dramatic monologue, and two poems.

Please note that the course assessment is subject to change.  

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• Creative Writing Certificate : Required Courses

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