MA in Writing Graduate Course Schedule, Northwestern University School of Professional Studies - Northwestern School of Professional Studies

Program Courses

Please note that course schedules may be amended due to low enrollment, faculty availability, and/or other factors.

Online Sync Sessions are an integral part of the online learning experience. Additional information about learning concepts and assignments may be discussed and sync sessions offer valuable opportunities for students to interact with their faculty and peers during the term. We encourage all students to attend live, but if they are unable to, sync sessions will be recorded and posted within Canvas to allow for an asynchronous model of success as well.

MCW 413-0 : Fiction Writing Workshop

Description

The goal of this class is to revise material currently in progress, but don’t freak out if what you have right now doesn’t feel substantial or ready: you’ll generate enough to keep yourself going as we go forward. If you’re working on a longer project, I strongly encourage you to consider working material that could potentially be part of your thesis. If you're still feeling a little tentative, that’s OK! I’m excited to see what you’ll create---and excited too to see how the elements of craft we’re exploring here are in dialogue with your poetry and your non-fiction. You’ll still be writing stories here, though ??. As we revise, I hope that we all discover what practices work best for our own writing, so that we’re not just revising but also developing a deeper understanding of the strictures and demands of this recursive process. That’s all a super long way of saying that we’re revising, sure, but we’re also here to figure out how to revise---it doesn’t look the same for everyone, and it honestly doesn’t even look the same for the same person. It shifts from project to project, like everything else.