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Exploring Your Creative Writing Potential
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Online, Tues. May 21
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- Online course: Internet access required
- May 21 to Aug. 13
- $550 (EDP 845586)
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 (Fiction Collective, 1975) and Skirts (Baskerville Publishers, 1994). Both her novels and short fiction have won numerous honors. She has taught creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension for nearly 10 years.
Textbook(s) for this course:
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
Author: Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris
Publisher: Ecco
Publication Year: 2010
ISBN: 0061583243
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The Hodges Harbrace Handbook
Author: Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray
Publisher: Wadsworth
Edition: 18th
Publication Year: 2012
ISBN: 1111346704
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What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Author: Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter
Publisher: Longman
Edition: 3d
Publication Year: 2009
ISBN: 0205616887
Berkeley, Tues. June 4, 6:30 pm, 10 meetings
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- 10 meetings
- June 4 to Aug. 27: Tues., 6:30-9:30 pm (no meetings June 18, July 16, and Aug. 13)
- Berkeley: 78 Barrows Hall, UC campus
- $550 (EDP 055145)
Clive Matson, M.F.A., authored Let the Crazy Child Write! (New World Library, 1998) and co-edited the anthology An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11 (Regent Press, 2002), winner of the PEN Oakland 2003 Josephine Miles National Literary Award. He is the author of the poetry collection Squish Boots (Broken Shadow Publication, 2002).
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X70 (2 semester units in English)
An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in WritingLearn to assess your potential, identify your strengths and develop valuable writing techniques in this course for beginning writers. Exercises and weekly writing assignments help you discover your talents in a variety of forms: brief fictional scenes, short stories, poetry and journalistic writing. The supportive atmosphere helps you see how others respond to your writing.
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