Class Archive

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MW 9:30-11

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the study of short fiction—to explore the elements that make up the genre, and to enable students to talk critically about short stories and begin to feel comfortable and confident with their...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TuTh 8-9:30

This is an introductory creative writing workshop in which participants write, revise, and discuss their original works of poetry in a collaborative group setting. We'll ...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 9:30-11

A short fiction workshop with a focus on the craft of writing. In this course, we will be readers, writers, and editors of short fiction. We'll read a range of published short stories in order to explore the technical ways in which a short stor...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 5-6:30

There’ll be writing prompts and there’ll be experiments involving old forms—the sonnet, the ghazal, the haibun, varieties of orature (including song).

Old forms?  From an essay: “I find  [form] interestin...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

MW 12:30-2

Musician and poet Sun Ra once noted, after writing a requiem for a former band member this is the first time a black man received his very own requiem. We’ll be reading...(read more)

143C/1

Long Narrative

MW 12:30-2

This course is for students who are interested in writing, or are already working on, a novel or novella. Through creative writing exercises, discussion and reading, we’ll generate ideas and explore how a novel is made; through workshops, you...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

MW 12:30-2

This fall I’m going to ask that poetry workshop members join me in reading and thinking about location as an active process and about cross-genre writing as a response to and engagement with that process.  Those are my particular—t...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 9:30-11

This is an introductory workshop that focuses on writing and revising short fiction. We will also read published short stories to see how writers handle the essentials of voice, character, setting, structure, point of view, conflict, and ...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

MW 12:30-2

"There is no greater fallacy going than that art is expression" (Robert Frost)

This introductory workshop will ask: what is poetry if it is not (or not only) self-expression? We will write, workshop and revise our own poems and ...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction—to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Students wil...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students will also ta...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 2-3:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day) — aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line (verse); sho...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

MW 3:30-5

In this class we will read as writers and write as readers, explore some of the larger mysteries and technical fine points of poetry, and how one is often to be found in the other. Course readings covering a range of 20^th and 21^{st(read more)}

143C/1

Long Narrative

MW 12:30-2

This course is for students who are interested in or already working on a novel or novella. Through creative writing exercises and reading, we’ll explore how a novel is made, including questions of structure, research, and planning; through w...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Food Writing

MW 11-12:30

This is a creative nonfiction writing workshop focused on the topic of food.  Food writing encompasses more than snooty restaurant reviews or poetic descriptions of the taste of wine, coffee, and chocolate.  Food writing can include memoi...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction

TTh 9:30-11

This course is a nonfiction workshop in which you’ll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from TV to music and other forms of performance, while also developing your own voice and sensibility on the page as you learn ...(read more)

143N/3

Prose Nonfiction

Friday 9-12

An upper division writing workshop, open to undergraduate and graduate students from any department who have either taken English 43-level writing seminars or have equivalent skills/experience.

Drawing on narrative strategies in memoir, t...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

M 9-12

Studies in contemporary poetic cases will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop:
Wright/Baldwin

MW 5-6:30

By the time James Baldwin died in 1987, he had, arguably, become the voice of black and queer America. As the author of numerous novels, essays, plays, and social commentaries, the Harlem-born author had managed, over his nearly forty-year career, ...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MWF 1-2

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the study ...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 2-3:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students will also ta...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

A short fiction workshop with a focus on the craft of writing. In this course, we will be readers, writers, and editors of short fiction. We'll read a range of published short stories in order to explore the technical ways in which a short stor...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

There’ll be writing prompts and there’ll be experiments involving old forms—the sonnet, the ghazal, the haibun, varieties of orature (including song). 

Old forms?  From an essay: I find  [form] interes...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TuTh 3:30-5

143C/1

Long Narrative

MW 5:30-7

This course is for students interested in or already working on a novel or novella. Questions of structure, plot, setting, character, time, and voice will be addressed in our readings and throughout the course, particularly during our workshops, wh...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

TTh 9:30-11

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will closely examine the essays in the assigned anthology, as well as students’ exercises and essays.  Writing assignments wi...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

Th 9-12

In this class, we’ll think about fiction as practitioners: we’ll explore how fiction is made through making our own.  This class will begin with generation and end with revision, and new writers are very welcome. Students will writ...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MW 3-4:30

This is an introductory workshop that focuses on writing and revising short fiction. We will also read published short stories and other literary work to see how writers handle the essentials of voice, character, setting, structure, point...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 10:30-12

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students are required...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 3:30-5

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction—to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Students wil...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day) — aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line (verse); sho...(read more)

143B/2

Verse:
The Migratory Ear: Listening as a Generative Strategy

TTh 2-3:30

“…listen/to the sound/of the grass/as we speak/the sound/of the grass/is the poem/we are writing/together/as we speak” (Cecilia Vicuña, ed. and trans. Rosa Alcalá)

What becomes...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Travel and Place

MW 5-6:30

“Traveling, Thinking, Writing.”

Much of American literature has had to do with a sense of motion. Note the journeys, e.g., in the best known texts of Melville and Twain. But note also that Harlemite Langston Hughes’ auto...(read more)

141/1

Modes of Writing

TWTh 2-4:30

This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing—fiction and poetry. Students will learn to talk critically about these forms and begin to feel comfortable and confident writing within these genres. Students will write a v...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction—to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Students wil...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 9:30-11

A short fiction workshop with a focus on the craft of writing. In this course, we will be readers, writers, and editors of short fiction. We'll read a range of published short stories in order to discover the technical ways in which a short sto...(read more)

143A/3

Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students are required...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

This course will be taught asynchronously.

The purpose of this class will be to produce a collective language in which to treat poetry. Writing your own poems will be a part of this task, but it will also require readings in contemporary poetry and essays in poetics, as well as some writing...(read more)

143C/1

Long Narrative

TTh 11-12:30

This course is for students interested in or already working on a novel or novella. Questions of structure, plot, setting, character, time, and voice will be addressed in our readings and throughout the course, particularly during our workshops, wh...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Our Culture, Our Lives

MW 12-1:30

This course is a nonfiction workshop in which you’ll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from TV to music and film, while also developing your own voice and sensibility on the page as you learn to write about your ow...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

TTh 2-3:30

In this semester's 243B we'll be actively fielding questions around environmentally conscious/location-oriented writing.

Some beginnings:

From Jonathan Skinner's introduction to the Ecopoetics section of the Cambridg...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop

Thurs. 9:30-12:30

This is a writing workshop for Ph.D students interested in writing nonacademic literary prose. This might mean creative nonfiction, personal essay, memoir, food writing,, sports writing, nonacademic reviewing of books, film, performance, and art, a...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 3:30-5

This course serves an introductory creative writing workshop where participants will write, revise, and discuss their original works of poetry in a collaborative group setting. Through a series of writing prompts, technical exercises in form and me...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 9-10:30

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction—to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Students wil...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

This course is a workshop that focuses on writing and revising short fiction. We will also read published short stories and other literary work to see how writers craft effective stories. We will examine the essentials of voice, character, setting,...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 1:30-3

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-lin...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 2-3:30

As some would have it, the field of verse can be organized into poems and non-poems, poets and non-poets. In this schema poets are individuals who bear responsibility for the asethetic choices that produce poems, and poems are things that instruct ...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Personal Essay

TTh 12:30-2

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will closely examine the essays in the assigned anthology, as well as students’ exercises and essays.  Writing assignments wi...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

MW 1:30-3

The purpose of this workshop is to begin to write a novel or a story collection. It is unlikely that you will finish writing either in the three months we spend together. Fiction takes time. There are some reported exceptions to this, but given tha...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

W 3-6

Studies in contemporary poetic cases will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

Only continuing UC Berkeley graduate students (and upper-division students with considerable writing experience) are eligible to apply for this cou...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 2-5

This course is a laboratory for student writers to work on short stories or, if appropriate, chapters from longer fictional projects. Over the eight weeks, we will help you discover your own methods for building worlds, developing characters, struc...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 9-12

This course is a laboratory for student writers to work on short stories or, if appropriate, chapters from longer fictional projects. Over the eight weeks, we will help you discover your own methods for building worlds, developing characters, struc...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

(Note: This course was added on April 26.)

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the study of short fiction—to explore the elements that make up the genre, and to enable students to talk critically about short stories a...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

A short fiction workshop with a focus on the craft of writing. In this course, we will be readers, writers, and editors of short fiction. We'll read a range of published short stories in order to discover the technical ways in which a short sto...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

This section of English 143A has been canceled (June 4, 2019).

143B/1

Verse

MW 12-1:30

The question is whether or not poetry can be more than a series of successful gestures, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it rather long ago, or arrive at something other than the statement or restatement of an emotional truth or idea. Can poetry int...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Creative Nonfiction: Our Culture, Our Lives

TTh 11-12:30

This course is a creative nonfiction workshop in which you'll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from TV and film to music and the built environment, while developing your own voice as a writer and reflecting on what ...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
Food Writing

TTh 3:30-5

This is a creative nonfiction writing workshop focused on the topic of food.  Food writing encompasses more than snooty restaurant reviews or poetic descriptions of the taste of wine, coffee, and chocolate.  Food writing can include memoi...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 11-12:30

Even if it's written in solitude, poetry is a highly social form of art. A poet may speak to their reader, to their city, to their government, to their time. They may write to their friends or fellow poets, or they may write to, with, or agains...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students are req...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

W 3-6

A fiction workshop in which students will be expected to turn in material approximately every third week, to be edited and discussed in class.

Emphasis will be upon editing and revising. Quality rather than quantity is the ideal, but each...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 9-10:30

A writing and literature course in which students will become familiar with trends in 20th- and 21st-century poetry. The selected poetry will be linked to developments in the other arts. Students will write poems based upon models offered by establ...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 9:30-11

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)—aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and lon...(read more)

143B/3

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

This is a workshop class. Students will be submitting drafts of new poems weekly, reading lots of poetry, reading and critiquing each other's new work, so regular attendance and participation is mandatory.

Only continuing UC Berkeley ...(read more)

143D/1

Expository and Critical Writing :
The Art of the Critical Essay

TTh 11-12:30

This course in the critical essay is designed for students who are writing a thesis-length research paper. For the first weeks of class, we will explore and share our own experiences, processes, obstacles and goal...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

M 3-6

Much of American literature has had to do with a sense of motion. Note the journeys, e.g., in the best known texts of Melville and Twain. But note also that Harlemite Langston Hughes' autobiography, The Big Sea, begins on a boat a...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop

W 3-6

Creative Nonfiction:  A graduate level writing workshop, open to graduate students from any department. Open also to undergraduate students from any department who have taken English 143-level writing seminars or have equivalent skills or expe...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TuWTh 2-4:30

The Literary Magazine and the Short Story as Genre.  This course will be both a short fiction workshop and a craft class studying the literary short story as a genre. Rather than approach literary fiction as the norm from which genre fiction d...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

MW 2-5

In this eight-week course, we will focus on two things: learning about contemporary publishing venues for short fiction—both traditional journals and online platforms—and workshopping the participants' fiction. Together, we will rea...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TuWTh 10-12:30

This course is a poetry writing workshop. Students will submit new drafts of poems weekly, and we will read and discuss these together, supporting each other's growth as writers. We will also study contemporary examples focusing on poetry of th...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Food Writing

TuTh 2-5

This eight-week summer class centers on workshopping your own literary nonfiction, helping you draw on the distinctive forms and techniques of the personal essay, memoir, travel writing, cultural criticism, and journalistic reportage to speak to, o...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

This workshop is designed to hone basic elements of the short story. We will read some exceptional stories in a variety of genres. We will compose and revise 1-2 stories over the course of the semester. 

Only continuing students are ...(read more)

143A/3

Short Fiction

TTh 3:30-5

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction –  to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Stud...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 2-3:30

In addition to reading and writing poems, we'll also: study prosody via weekly scanning assignments; read critical essays on poetics; historicize formal conventions and talk about genre; create; destroy; rebuild; delight. I'm hoping th...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

Tues. 3:30-6:30

The purpose of this class will be to produce a collective language in which to treat poetry. Writing your own poems will be a part of this task, but it will also require readings in contemporary poetry and essays in poetics, as well as some wr...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Culture Writing and Life Writing

MW 3-4:30

This course is a nonfiction workshop in which you'll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from TV and film to music and other forms of performance, while developing your own voice as a writer and reflecting on...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

TTh 12:30-2

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will closely examine the essays in the assigned anthology, as well as students’ exercises and essays.  Writing assignments wi...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

MW 1:30-3

A graduate-level fiction workshop. Students will write fiction, produce critiques of work submitted to the workshop, and participate in discussions about the theory and practice of writing. We’ll also read published fiction and essays about w...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

Thurs. 9:30-12:30

In this semester's 243B we'll be actively fielding questions around environmentally conscious/location-oriented writing.

Some beginnings:

From Jonathan Skinner's introduction to the Ecopoetics section of the new...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

MW 9-10:30

This is a collaborative workshop where participants will learn to think critically and supportively about others’ creative work and their own, fostering an ongoing practice of editing and revision throughout the semester. Students will develo...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction –  to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Stud...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students are req...(read more)

143A/3

Short Fiction

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

A fiction workshop in which students will be expected to turn in material approximately every third week, to be edited and discussed in class.

Emphasis will be upon editing and revising. Quality rather than quantity is the ideal, but each...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 9:30-11

This is a workshop, a studio class. The principle is immersion.  Students will be expected to be reading poetry all the time, writing it, giving and receiving feedback on the drafts of  poems you will be turning in weekly. Attendance...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-lin...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Food Writing

TTh 3:30-5

This is a creative nonfiction writing workshop focused on the topic of food.  Food writing encompasses more than snooty restaurant reviews or poetic descriptions of the taste of wine, coffee, and chocolate.  Food writing can include memoi...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 2-5

In this eight-week course, we will focus on two things: learning about contemporary publishing venues for short fiction—both traditional journals and online platforms—and workshopping the participants’ fiction. Together, we will r...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 11-12:30

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  Stu...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 12:30-2

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-lin...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

W 3-6

Soundings:  A Poetry Workshop

"How you sound??" the poet Amiri Baraka asked. This workshop is designed to be an exploration of "voice" through poetic form, music, kitchen appliances, rush hour traffic, and the nat...(read more)

143B/3

Verse

TTh 2-3:30

The purpose of this class will be to produce a collective language in which to treat poetry. Writing your own poems will be a part of this task, but it will also require readings in contemporary poetry and essays in poetics, as well as some wr...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Covering Culture

MW 9:30-11

This course is a nonfiction workshop in which you'll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from TV and music to theater and visual art—in other words, the genres discussed in the culture-and-arts pages of major new...(read more)

143T/1

Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 12:30-2

This is a workshop in the translation of poetry into English. Workshop members will develop a project and submit a translation a week (together with the original poem and a word-for-word version), and the work of the class will be for members to gi...(read more)

166/4

Special Topics:
Writing Poetry and Nonfiction, Writing as Social Practice

TTh 5-6:30

One of the ideas behind this course offering is that poetry and essays (life-writing, creative non-fiction, “essaying,” etc.) have similar aims or field-marks—both are literary vehicles of exploration and documentation; both value...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

Tues. 9-12

This workshop/seminar is for poets who already have a body of work (however large or small) and who are currently working on a project or collection. Participants should be working toward furthering development of the project and toward the formula...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

This is an introductory course on writing short fiction. Its aim is twofold: to help students become more practiced and confident fiction writers, and to foster reflection on and mindful engagement with the writing process.

Toward those end...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 3:30-5

This course is primarily a poetry workshop.  Reading and writing assignments will help generate our workshop material and give us the language and tools to treat that material.  Readings will include poetry and poetics from the last seve...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 3:30-5

The aim of this course to explore the genre of short fiction –  to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Studen...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

This workshop is designed to hone basic elements of the short story: style, voice, perspective, structure, plot, character, and so on. We will read some exceptional short stories in a variety of genres. We will compose and revise 1-3 short stories...(read more)

143A/3

Short Fiction

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

A fiction workshop in which students will be expected to turn in material approximately every third week, to be edited and discussed in class.

Emphasis will be upon editing and revising. Quality rather than quantity is the ideal, but each s...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 9:30-11

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-li...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 3:30-5

The purpose of this class will be to produce a collective language in which to treat poetry.  Writing your own poems will be a part of this task, but it will also require readings in contemporary poetry and essays in poetics, as well as some ...(read more)

143C/1

Long Narrative:
The Novel

TTh 2-3:30

The purpose of this workshop is to begin to write a novel. It is unlikely that you will finish writing a novel in the three months we spend together. Novels take time. There are some reported exceptions to this—Jack Kerouac wrote the first d...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

TTh 2-3:30

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will closely examine the essays in the assigned anthology, as well as students’ exercises and essays.  Writing assignments w...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 9:30-11

A graduate-level fiction workshop. Students will write fiction, produce critiques of work submitted to the workshop, and participate in discussions about the theory and practice of writing. We’ll also read published fiction and essays about ...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop:
Creative Nonfiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

A graduate-level writing workshop, open both to graduate students from any department as well as to undergraduate students from any department who have taken English 143-level writing seminars or have equivalent skills or experience.

Drawin...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 2-3:30

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  St...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing lyric poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and l...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 2-3:30

This workshop will draw inspiration from the counsel of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." In this spirit, we will experiment with different generative exercise...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Traveling, Thinking, Writing

TTh 9:30-11

Much of American literature has had to do with a sense of motion. Note the journeys, e.g., in the best known texts of Melville and Twain.  But note also that Harlemite Langston Hughes’ autobiography, The Big Sea, begins on a bo...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
Life Writing

TTh 12:30-2

143N/3

Prose Nonfiction:
Covering Culture

TTh 12:30-2

This course is a nonfiction workshop in which you’ll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from theater and visual art to music and TV — in other words, the genres that one finds discussed in the culture-and-art...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

F 11-2

Studies in contemporary poetic cases (Graham Foust, Sarah Nicholson, Morgan Parker, Juliana Spahr, Jenny Zhang, and others)  will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

Only continuing UC Berkeley students are eligible to app...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

MW 4-5:30

What can poems do, and how do they do it? This course will explore how we as poets engage with the world through our writing, and how we as readers find value in poems. Our goal will be to develop an expansive sense of possible poetic acts, and to...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop.  We will discuss the stories in the assigned anthology and writing by students in the class.  Assignments will include three short writing exercises, two new short stories, and critique...(read more)

143A/3

Short Fiction

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

A fiction workshop in which students will be expected to turn in material approximately every third week, to be edited and discussed in class.

Emphasis will be upon editing and revising. Quality rather than quantity is the ideal, but each s...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 9:30-11

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-li...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 3:30-5

At a pivotal moment in the development of her practice, the experimental composer Maryanne Amacher is said to have conducted a notebook-based self-analysis that revolutionized her relationship to composition. In this course, parallel to the writin...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Traveling, Thinking, Writing/ Travelers' Tales

MW 1:30-3

Much of American literature has had to do with a sense of motion. Note the journeys, e.g., in the best known texts of Melville and Twain. But note also that Harlemite Langston Hughes’ autobiography, The Big Sea, begins on a boat and...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

W 3-6

Studies in contemporary poetic cases (Anne Boyer, Graham Foust, Fred Moten, Chris Nealon, Ed Roberson, Juliana Spahr, Simone White,  and others)  will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

Only continuing UC Berk...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 4-5:30

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  St...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-li...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

What I take as a given is that poetry is a public activity, one with the job of disrupting the status quo, the “interested” discourse of TV and advertising, the endless double-talk of politics. This semester I’m wanting us to (read more)

143C/1

Long Narrative:
The Novel

TTh 2-3:30

The purpose of this course is to begin writing a novel. None of us will finish writing a novel in the three months we spend together. Novels take time, notwithstanding NaNoWriMo. There are some reported exceptions to this—Jack Kerouac wrote ...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

MW 9:30-11

This course is a creative writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will read and discuss the essays in the assigned anthology as well as work submitted by students.  Writing assignments will include three ...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 2-3:30

By attending to the triangulation of politics, prosody, and history within poetry of the last four hundred years, we will build a rigorous foundation for our own poetic experiments. Together, we will ask: What practical skills does one need in ord...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 11-12:30

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction –  to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them.  Stu...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 9:30-11

This course is a creative writing workshop.  Students will write 3 short exercises and 2 short stories (approximately 50 pages over the whole semester).  We will discuss the stories in the anthology as well as work produced by students i...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

M 3-6

The purpose of this class will be to produce a collective language in which to treat poetry.  Writing your own poems will be a part of this task, but it will also require readings in contemporary poetry and essays in poetics, as well as some ...(read more)

143D/1

Expository and Critical Writing :
Crafting the Critical Essay

TTh 2-3:30

This course is designed to prepare and support students who are planning to write a critical research essay as part of the English major.  We will begin by discussing various kinds of literary critical essays in order to identify models and m...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

W 3-6

Like & Love: an upper-division creative nonfiction writing workshop, open to continuing undergraduate and graduate students from any department. Drawing on narrative strategies found in memoir, the diary, travel writing, and fiction, students ...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 12:30-2

A graduate-level fiction workshop. Students will write fiction, produce critiques of work submitted to the workshop, and participate in discussions about the theory and practice of writing. We’ll also read published fiction and essays about ...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

TTh 11-12:30

Poet Erica Hunt, writing about the “pleasure of cultural resonance” and “Black sources of a radical aesthetic” described “an aesthetics whose goals are critical, investigative, disruptive [and] which aims to wear its ...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MW 10:30-12

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  S...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  S...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

This class is a workshop in short fiction. It is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of narrative style and structure, and to encourage a model of constructive critique in a workshop setting. Our readings will include short stor...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 4-5:30

What I take as a given is that poetry (and by implication, all "creative writing") is a public activity, one with the job of disrupting the status quo, the "interested" discourse of TV and advertising, the endless double-talk o...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-li...(read more)

143B/3

Verse

TTh 3:30-5

A seminar in writing poetry.

Only continuing UC Berkeley students are eligible to apply for this course. To be considered for admission, please electronically submit 5 of your poems, by clicking on the link below; fill out the applicati...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

MW 12-1:30

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will closely examine the essays in Phillip Lopate’s anthology, as well as students’ exercises and essays.  Writing ass...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction

TTh 2-3:30

Within a workshop setting, we will read, discuss, and practice writing the major forms and styles of nonfiction, with special attention to the essay as a literary genre.  Students will express their understanding and appreciation of this lite...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop

This course has been canceled.

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 9:30-11

This course is primarily a poetry workshop.  Reading and writing assignments will help generate our workshop material and give us the language and tools to treat that material.  These assignments will engage both vision and process; they...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop where students will submit and discuss their own short fiction.  We will also closely examine the work of the published writers in the assigned anthology.  Students will complete 3 short...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

This class is a workshop in short fiction. It is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of narrative style and structure, and to encourage a model of constructive critique in a workshop setting. Our readings will include short stor...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-li...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

W 3-6

From an essay: I find  [form] interesting as a site, as a point of disembarkation for talking about that other stuff, for the ongoing work of investigation and experiment.  Sonnets can be navigated but the point, in all my classes, i...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

A seminar in the writing of prose nonfiction as an art.

To be considered for admission to this class, please submit 5 -10 photocopied pages of your creative nonfiction (no poetry or academic writing), along with an application form, to ...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

M 11-2

Studies in contemporary poetic cases (Anne Boyer, Farnoosh Fathi, Brenda Hillman, Ben Lerner, Fred Moten, Lisa Robertson, Dana Ward, and others) and a few essays will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

To be considered for...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction--to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them. Students will write tw...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)--aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-li...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 3:30-5

A seminar in writing poetry.

To be considered for admission to this class, please submit 5 photocopied pages of your poems, along with an application form, to Professor Sutherland's mailbox in 322 Wheeler, BY 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, APR...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Traveling, Thinking, Writing

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

Much of American literature has had to do with a sense of motion. Note the journeys, e.g., in the best known texts of Melville and Twain. But note also that Harlemite Langston Hughes’ autobiography, The Big Sea, begins on a boat and...(read more)

143T/1

Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 9:30-11

This is a workshop in the translation of poetry into English. Workshop members will develop a project and submit a translation a week (together with the original poem and a word-for-word version) and the work of the class will be for members to gi...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 2-3:30

Watermelons

Green Buddhas

On the fruit stand.

We eat the smile

And spit out the teeth.

--Charles Simic

Poetry’s hardy stuff. It doesn’t have to be sacred. In this course we’re g...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  S...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This limited-enrollment workshop course will concentrate on the form, theory and practice of short fiction.

To be considered for admission to this class, please submit 10-12 photocopied pages of your fiction, along with an application f...(read more)

143A/3

Short Fiction

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

A fiction workshop in which students will be expected to turn in material approximately every third week, to be edited and discussed in class.

Emphasis will be upon editing and revising. Quality rather than quantity is the ideal, but each s...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day)—aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and lo...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Like & Love

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

An upper-division creative nonfiction writing workshop open to students from any department. Drawing on narrative strategies found in memoir, the diary, travel writing, and fiction, students will have work-shopped three literary nonfiction 5-10 pa...(read more)

143T/1

Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 12:30-2

This is a workshop in the translation of poetry into English. Workshop members will develop a project and submit a translation a week (together with the original poem and a word-for-word version) and the work of the class will be for members to gi...(read more)

166/2

Special Topics:
Readings for Fiction Writers

TTh 12:30-2

This course will focus on each novelist's invention of, or critique of, national identity myths in a time of national crisis.  Students will explore the intimate connection between choice of narrative strategy and construction of meaning....(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  S...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 12-1:30

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop where students will submit and discuss their own short fiction.  We will also closely examine the work of published writers.  Students will complete 3 short writing assignments and appro...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 3:30-5

This workshop is designed to hone basic elements of fiction writing: grammar, diction, syntax, structure, plot, character, style, and so on. We will read a handful of short stories from a coursepack, David Mitchell&r...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 4-5:30

This seminar/workshop in the writing of poetry is intended for the exploration of contemporary solutions to long-standing, as well as recent, questions facing poets. Students in the class will undertake writing projects in relation to technical an...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of experiments in which you will explore some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today—aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-lined p...(read more)

143B/3

Verse

TTh 2-3:30

A seminar in writing poetry. This will be a series of writer-on-writing facilitated sessions, providing opportunities for students writing, reading, and talking about a range of poetries, including their own work. There will be a strong, text-base...(read more)

165/1

Special Topics:
Poetry Writing in an Ecological Field of Composition

TTh 9:30-11

Among other issues associated with the composition of poetry, this class seeks to contend with the difficulties that arise from how a poem is displayed on the page. We will look at a number of poets, such as Cummings...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This workshop course will concentrate on the form, theory and practice of fiction. Workshop participants are required to write a minimum of 45 pages of original fiction, fulfill specific assignments on craft, attend all workshop sessions, and prov...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 9:30-11

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  S...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse:
Received Forms and Invented Forms

MW 10:30-12

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a number of British poets adapted the Italian sonnet to craft a form that would become central to English literature: fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, with three rhymed quatrains and a clo...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

A short fiction workshop.  Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories.  Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript.  S...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This limited-enrollment workshop will concentrate on the form, theory and practice of short fiction.  Permission of instructor is required. 

To be considered for admission to this class, please submit 12-15 photocopied pages o...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of experiments in which you will explore some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today—aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line; short and long-lined p...(read more)

143C/1

Long Narrative:
The Short Novel

W 3-6

In this class, we’ll be reading and discussing various novels under 150 pages from a diverse group of authors. The point is to take a close look at a text of manageable size, paying attention to its structure – how the author manages t...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

TTh 11-12:30

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop to explore the art and craft of the personal essay.  We will closely examine the essays in the assigned anthology, as well as students’ exercises and essays.  Writing assignments w...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
The Essay

TTh 12:30-2

This will be a course in the essay, and it is designed to help students who are writing an undergraduate thesis-length paper. We will begin by getting acquainted with various kinds of essays—narrative and descriptive, personal and research-b...(read more)

143N/3

Prose Nonfiction:
Traveling, Thinking, Writing

TTh 2-3:30

Book List: Students should come to class before buying books. The list will likely include some of the following: Basho’s Back Roads to Far Towns (translated by Cid Corman); Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; Tete-Mic...(read more)

143T/1

Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 2-3:30

This is a workshop course in the translation of poetry. Participants need to be at least moderately competent in some language other than English. All of the work will involve translating from other languages into English. Participants will be exp...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop:
Like & Love

M 3-6

A graduate creative nonfiction writing workshop open to students from any department. Drawing on narrative strategies found in memoir, the diary, travel writing, and fiction, students will have work-shopped three 10-20 page literary nonfiction pie...(read more)

N141/1

Modes of Writing

MTuTh 2-4

This course will introduce students to the study of writing short fiction. Students will learn to talk critically about short stories and begin to feel comfortable and confident with their own writing of them. Students will write both longer and s...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 12-1:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students are requir...(read more)

143A/2

Short Fiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This workshop course concentrates on the form, theory and practice of the short story. Students admitted to the course will be required to write a minimum of 45 pages of original fiction, complete assignments on specific aspects of narrative strat...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

TTh 9:30-11

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of experiments in which you will explore some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today—aperture, partition, closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence & line; stanza; shor...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

I’ll ask students to be interested in form as a site, as a point of disembarkation for talking about that other stuff, for the ongoing work of investigation and experiment. Poems can be formally navigated but the point, in all my classes, is...(read more)

143B/3

Verse:
Poetry and the Poetics of Sound, Voice, & Performance

Tues. 3:30-6:30

In this course, we’ll work towards new understandings of sound, of the human voice and voicing, of language’s relationship to the voice and to its own sonic dimensions, and of the ways in which visual and musical and other sonic media ...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

W 3-6

This workshop course concentrates on the form, theory and practice of creative nonfiction, particularly on the personal essay. Students admitted to the course will be required to write a minimum of 45 pages, complete assignments, and participate i...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

MW 4-5:30

This workshop is for poets who already have a body of work (however large or small) and who are currently working on a project or collection. It presupposes two things: that poetry as a project is as rigorous an undertaking as more typically schol...(read more)

43A/1

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories, and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students are requir...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 9:30-11

Introduction to the Writing of Verse is a reading course as well as a writing course, designed to introduce you to poems written in a wide range of poetic forms and styles, with a wide variety of subjects and approaches. It is also designed to off...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

This class will be conducted as a writing workshop where students will submit and discuss their own short fiction. We will also closely examine the work of published writers. Students will complete 3 short writing assignments and approximately 40 ...(read more)

143B/1

Verse

MW 4-5:30

The purpose of this class will be to produce an unfinished language in which to treat poetry. Writing your own poems will be a part of this task, but it will also require readings in contemporary poetry and essays in poetics, as well as some writi...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 12:30-2

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of experiments in which you will explore some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today--aperture, partition, closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence & line; stanza; short &am...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

TTh 12:30-2

This will be a course in the essay, and it is designed to help students who are writing an undergraduate thesis-length paper. We will begin by getting acquainted with various kinds of essays (narrative and descriptive, personal and research-based,...(read more)

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
Traveling, Thinking, Writing

TTh 3:30-5

Much of American literature has had to do with a sense of motion. Note the journeys, e.g., in the best known texts of Melville and Twain. But note also that Harlemite Langston Hughes’ autobiography, The Big Sea, begins on a boat and...(read more)

143N/3

Prose Nonfiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

Rooms and Lives: a creative or literary nonfiction workshop open to students from any department. Drawing on narrative strategies found in memoir, the diary, travel writing, and fiction, students will have work-shopped in class three 10-20 page pi...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This graduate fiction workshop will concentrate on the form, theory and practice of fiction. Workshop participants are required to (1) write a minimum of 45 pages of original fiction (e.g. several short stories and/or chapters of a novel-in-progre...(read more)

143B/1

Verse:
Instructive Mysteries

M 3-6

"A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words" --William Carlos Williams

How do poems work? To that question there are at least as many answers as there are poems. Often poets have the experience of writing intuitively, mov...(read more)

143B/2

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

In this course you will conduct a progressive series of experiments in which you will explore some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today—aperture, partition, closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence & line; stanza; short & ...(read more)

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

TTh 2-3:30

This course will offer students — in a workshop setting — the opportunity to read, discuss, and practice writing the major forms and styles of nonfiction prose, with special attention to understanding, appreciating — and practi...(read more)

143T/1

Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 9:30-11

This is a practical workshop for students wishing to work at translating poetry into English, so students need to have at least an intermediate knowledge of the language they wish to translate from. The class works like a poetry writing workshop: s...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

M 3-6

The point will be to write poetry in public spaces, to write with an eye toward performance/ publication. My assumption is that people entering the class will enter with projects underway and/or with a strong interest in the problems and issues of ...(read more)

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

MW 3-4:30

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

143B/1

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

143B/2

Verse:
Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

Tues. 3:30-6:30

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

W 3-6

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop:
Rooms and Lives

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

143A/1

Short Fiction

TTh 9:30-11

143A/2

Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

143B/1

Verse

M 3-6

I’ll ask students to be interested in form as a site, as a point of disembarkation for talking about that other stuff, for the ongoing work of investigation and experiment. Poems can be formally navigated but the point, in all my classes, is...(read more)

143B/2

Verse: Poetry in Practice and in Theory

W 3-6

143B/3

Verse

TTh 11-12:30

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction: Traveling, Thinking, Writing

TTh 2-3:30

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 2-3:30

43B/1

Introduction to the Writing of Verse:
Translation, Echo, and Originality

TTh 2-3:30

143A/1

Short Fiction

MW 12:30-2

143A/2

Short Fiction

T 3:30-6:30

143B/1

Verse

M 3-6

To be considered for admission to this class, please submit 5 photocopied pages of your poems, along with an application form, to Professor Reines' mailbox in 322 Wheeler, BY 4:00...(read more)

143B/2

Verse:
How to Write Lyric Poems

TTh 9:30-11

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction

MW 9-10:30

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

MW 3-4:30

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 12:30-2

To be considered for admission to this class, please...(read more)

143A/1

Short Fiction:
Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

143A/2

Short Fiction:
Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

143A/3

Short Fiction:
Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

143B/1

Verse:
Verse

MW 4-5:30

143B/2

Verse:
Verse

TTh 11-12:30

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Prose Nonfiction

TTh 2-3:30

143T/1

Poetry Translation:
Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 9:30-11

243B/1

Graduate Course:
Poetry Writing Workshop

M 3-6

43B/1

Lower Division English:
Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 11-12:30

143A/1

American Literature:
Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

143B/1

Verse:
Verse

TTh 9:30-11

143B/2

Verse:
Verse

TTh 3:30-5

143B/3

Verse:
Docents of the Expanded Field

W 3-6

143N/1

Prose Nonfiction:
Traveling, Thinking, Writing

TTh 9:30-11

143N/2

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

TTh 12:30-2:00

143N/3

Prose Nonfiction:
The Personal Essay

M 3-6

143T/1

Poetry Translation:
Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 12:30-2

243A/1

Graduate Course:
Fiction Writing Workshop

MW 10:30-12

43A/1

Literature In English:
Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MW 3-4:30

143A/1

:
Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

143A/2

:
Verse

TTh 3:30-5

143B/3

:
Verse

W 3-6

C143V/1

:
Visual Autobiography

TTh 9:30-12:30

143N/1

:
Prose Non-fiction

TTh 11-12:30

243A/1

:
Fiction Writing Workshop

MW 10:30-12

43B/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 12:30-2

143A/1

Junior Coursework:
Short Fiction

MW 1:30-3

143A/2

Junior Coursework:
Short Fiction

W 3-6

143B/1

Junior Coursework:
Verse

MW 10-11:30

143B/2

Junior Coursework:
Verse

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

143N/1

Junior Coursework:
Prose Nonfiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

143N/2

Junior Coursework:
Prose Nonfiction: The Personal Essay

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

243A/1

Graduate Course:
Fiction Writing Workshop

Tues. 2-5

43B/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 3:30-5

143A/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

143B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

W 3-6

143B/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

TTh 9:30-11

143B/3

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse: Transelation/Mistranslation

TTh 11-12:30

143N/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Prose Non-fiction: The Personal Essay

TTh 11-12:30

243B/1

Graduate Course:
Poetry Writing Workshop

MW 12-1:30

43A/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 11-12:30

43B/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Verse

TTh 12:30-2

143A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

MW 12-1:30

143A/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

143B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

MW 10:30-12

143B/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

TTh 2-3:30

143N/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Prose Nonfiction: Creative Nonfiction?Writing Music, Dance & the Self

W 3-6

143N/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Prose Nonfiction: The Personal Essay

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

143T/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 9:30-11

243A/1

Graduate Course:
Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 2-3:30

243B/1

Graduate Course:
Poetry Writing Workshop

W 3-6

43A/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MW 3-4:30

43A/2

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

TTh 2-3:30

43B/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Verse

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

143A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

TTh 9:30-11

143A/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

TTh 12:30-2

143B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

TTh 12:30-2

143B/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

TTh 2-3:30

143B/3

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

Tues. 3:30-6:30

143N/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Prose Nonfiction

TTh 3:30-5

243A/1

Graduate Course:
Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 11-12:30

43B/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Verse

MW 1:30-3

143A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

W 3-6

143B/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

TTh 11-12:30

243A/1

Graduate Course:
Fiction Writing Workshop

TTh 11-12:30

43A/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

MW 9:30-11

143A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Short Fiction

MW 2:30-4

143B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

MW 10-12

143B/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

TTh 5-6:30

143B/3

Upper Division Coursework:
Verse

Thurs. 3:30-6:30 P.M.

143N/2

Upper Division Coursework:
Prose Nonfiction

TTh 3:30-5

143T/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Poetry Translation Workshop

TTh 9:30-11