Exploring Your Creative Writing Potential
X70 (2 semester units in English)
Learn to assess your potential, identify your strengths, and
develop valuable writing technique in this course for beginning
writers. Class exercises and weekly writing assignments help
you discover your talents in a variety of forms: short fictional
scenes, short story, poetry, and journalistic writing. A supportive
atmosphere helps you see how others respond to your writing.
On completion, you should have a clearer sense of your writing
strengths and direction to take for more advanced courses.
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MIMI ALBERT, M.F.A., is a novelist, writer of short fiction and nonfiction, book reviewer, and teacher of creative writing. She has published two novels, The Second Story Man and Skirts (Baskerville Press, Dallas). Both her novels and short fiction have won numerous honors. She has taught creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension for nearly 10 years.
- Online course: Internet access required
- Enroll anytime: You have 6 months to complete
- $550 (EDP 867689)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Year: 1995
ISBN: 038542339X
AND
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
Author: Daniel Halpern, ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Year: 2000
ISBN: 0140296387
AND
The Discovery of Poetry
Author: Francis Mayes
Publisher: Wadsworth
Edition: 2nd
Publication Year: 1994
ISBN: 0155001620
AND
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
Author: L. Rust Hills
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Year: 2000
ISBN: 0618082344
Sections closed for enrollment
Thurs. Sept. 17, Berkeley
CLIVE MATSON, M.F.A., authored Let the Crazy Child Write! and coedited the anthology An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11, winner of the PEN Oakland 2003 Josephine Miles National Literary Award. Susan Griffin hailed his seventh volume of poetry, Squish Boots, as "delightful and penetrating ... these poems are a revelation."NOTE: This class is closed. For information about related courses, contact your academic department.