| Course Title: Topics in Creative Writing: 'Writing the Short Story' |
| Start Date: 09/09/2026 End Date: 12/22/2026 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2026 |
| Description: In this workshop, we will read, discuss, and write and revise our own short fiction. Placing an emphasis on building literary community and practicing and decolonizing the "craft" of fiction, we will study the work of writers like Casey Plett, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Carmen Maria Machado, Edward P. Jones, Jamil Jan Kochai, etc., to better understand how the short story works both as a standalone world and part of the universe of the collection. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Mariah Rigg | mrigg@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/09/2026 - 12/22/2026 | Seminar | Wednesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ENGL-201. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 1 | Available: 15 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |