Writer's Workshop
 Course:ENGL 320
When: MTWRF 3-6pm
Where: Taylor 206
Instructor: Gary Thompson
Office: TALR 120
Phone: 530-898-5151
E-Mail: gthompson@csuchico.edu
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Required
Texts:
The Pushcart Prize XXII: Best of the Small
Presses. Bill Henderson, Editor, 1998.
Suggested Readings:
David
Lehman, Series Editor
Prize Stories (1998): The O. Henry Awards.
Larry Dark, Series Editor.
The Anchor Essay Annual (1998).
Philip Lopate, Editor
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Evaluation Procedures:
At the end of the three-week session, you will
receive a grade based upon your daily class participation and contribution as well as the
overall quality of your writing. This evaluation process will include a certain amount of
self-evaluation, since artistic work is often best judged by whether it has truly
sprung from necessity (to paraphrase Rilke).
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Course Requirements:
1. I will assume that each of us has a solid
background in the traditions and craft of at least one genre--poetry, fiction, or creative
nonfiction. During our discussions, we will each share our knowledge, insights, and
opinions about the work at hand. In other words, each day we will all contribute to an
intelligent, sensitive, and informed discussion about writing in the late-1990s.
2. Each
member of the workshop is expected to duplicate and distribute work for discussion on a
regular basis. Some of this work, perhaps half, should be brought with you and be
available for discussion on the first day of class. Please bring along relatively new work
(not your standby oldies but goodies ), so that our discussions might prove more
helpful to you. We’ll work out an informal schedule as we go along.
3. The
FINAL will be a class reading, and at that time, you will submit a portfolio of your best
work.
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"If you want to write, you do not make excuses. You write. You get a pencil and paper
and you get up early in the morning, or you go to bed late at night, and you write."
--Richard Hugo, from The Triggering
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