Fiction

Instructor: Teju Cole Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a course on the writing of literary fiction and is for students who have taken at least one previous writing workshop. Since good writing comes out of...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How do we document volcanoes, whale-song, winds, tempests? How do we write with and about the “natural world” and the place that humans occupy in it, in...

Instructor: Andrew Krivák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be a semester-long study on how, where, and why a writer chooses to use a particular point of view. Taking the word “point” quite...

Instructor: Namwali Serpell Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course offers an education in the origins of what is now known as genre fiction: romance, the Gothic, science fiction, mystery, thriller, detective...

Instructor: Namwali Serpell Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this course, we will learn about representing the “real” self and “real” life in prose fiction. The use of confessional, autobiographical, and...

Instructor: Nick White Spring 2027 Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop, we will study the...

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will...

Instructor: Andrew Kriv ák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in exploring the form of the short novel, or the “novella.” The short novel is not...

Instructor: Nick White Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How can we tell a compelling story in under three pages, or in one page, or perhaps in just a single sentence? In this workshop, we will explore the genre of...

Instructor: Paul Yoon Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. An introductory workshop where we will learn to read as writers and study all aspects of the craft of fiction writing, including such topics as character...