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Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer

(2008) Interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering dialogue to setting the scene, Naming the World jump-starts your creativity with inspiring exercises that will have you scrambling for pen and paper.

Corpus Christi

(2005) A car accident joins strangers linked by an intimate knowledge of madness. A teenage boy remembers his father’s act of sudden and self-righteous violence. A “hurricane party” reunites a couple whom tragedy parted. And, in an unforgettable three-story cycle, an illness sets in profound relief a man’s relationship with his mother and the odd, shifting fidelity of truth to love.

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Bret Johnston | Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Director of Creative Writing, Senior Lecturer on English

Education: BA 1996, Texas A&M University
MA 2000, Miami University
MFA 2002, University of Iowa

Phone: 617-495-5921
bajohnst@fas.harvard.edu
Office Hours: By appoinment
Office: Barker Center 266

Interests:

Fiction writing.

Selected Works:

Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (2008); Corpus Christi: Stories (Random House, 2004).

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Class List:

English Crr. Fiction Writing: Workshop