#  English CBF. Breaking Form 

 



 Instructor: [Teju Cole](/people/teju-cole)  
Day & Time: Wednesday 3-5:45pm   
*Enrollment: Limited to 12 students.*  
[Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/75281)  
The tension between the invented and the observed has compelled many writers to break out of inherited forms. How can we productively blur the line between fiction and non-fiction? What are the possibilities for very short narrative pieces? In this prose writing workshop, our thinking will be helped along by a wide variety of authors that, in one way or the other, make it new. Readings include Lydia Davis, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, and Claudia Rankine.

 **Supplemental Application Information:** Please submit a brief writing sample (3-5 pages of prose: creative nonfiction, journalism, or fiction) and a cover letter describing why you want to take this course in particular. In the cover letter, please mention three books that have positively shaped your sense of literary style.

 [Applications due by 11:59 PM ET on 8/19. Apply via Submittable](https://harvardcw.submittable.com/submit)



 



 

 See also:- [ Creative Writing Workshops ](/course-type/1-creative-writing-workshops)