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Introduction to Writing Fiction
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- Online course: Internet access required
- May 21 to Aug. 13
- $550 (EDP 845578)
Marc Schiffman, M.F.A., has taught a variety of writing and literature courses over the years for the University of Maryland. He also has published short stories and articles in many literary journals, and his novel The Man Who Controls the Earth was published in 2012. He has lived and worked in Japan, South Korea and Thailand. When asked if he could change one thing about himself he replied, "I'd give more and take less," and instead of being a writer he would be a pilgrim, traveler and itinerant golfer.
Textbook(s) for this course:
The Hodges Harbrace Handbook
Author: Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray
Publisher: Wadsworth
Edition: 18th
Publication Year: 2012
ISBN: 1111346704
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
Author: Michael Martone
Publisher: Touchstone
Edition: 2d
Publication Year: 2007
ISBN: 1416532277
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Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
Author: L. Rust Hills
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Year: 2000
ISBN: 0618082344
X464 (2 semester units in English)
An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in WritingLearn the basic concepts and techniques of writing fiction, with the aim of heightening your sense of language and developing your ability to solve problems of structure, characterization, viewpoint, story line, imagery, dialogue and believability. The instructor evaluates your manuscripts and allows time for classroom discussion.
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Sections Closed for Enrollment:
Online, Tues. Jan. 22
- Online course: Internet access required
- Jan. 22 to April 16
- $550 (EDP 846964)
Marc Schiffman, M.F.A., has taught a variety of writing and literature courses over the years for the University of Maryland. He also has published short stories and articles in many literary journals, and his novel The Man Who Controls the Earth was published in 2012. He has lived and worked in Japan, South Korea and Thailand. When asked if he could change one thing about himself he replied, "I'd give more and take less," and instead of being a writer he would be a pilgrim, traveler and itinerant golfer.
San Francisco, Mon. March 11, 6:30 pm, 10 meetings
- 10 meetings
- March 11 to May 13: Mon., 6:30-9:30 pm
- San Francisco: Room 216, Art and Design Center, 95 Third St.
- $525 (EDP 056317)
Daniel Coshnear, M.F.A., has taught fiction writing at a variety of Bay Area and North Bay institutions since 1997. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award. He has also received an award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Association, The Missouri Review's Editor's Prize and a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship. He has recently edited an anthology entitled 95% Naked: Fictions and Nonfictions (Wordrunner Press, 2010).
