EH 301: Fiction Workshop
Stitt, MW 11:00-12:20
This is a workshop in fiction writing. The class requires that you write clearly and well, that you
create concrete realities that (perhaps unfortunately) do not yet exist, and that you interact with
your classmates to improve your writing and theirs. The grade you receive in here will reflect the
quality of your writing, your obsession with detail, the vividness of your imagination, and your
active participation in the course.
Successful English 301 students will demonstrate a high level of linguistic competence, will
organize their thoughts and words and sentences and sensations into a coherent pattern, will have
an appreciation for the sound as well as the meaning of language, will observe the sensory and
social worlds with care, will display an awareness of multiple points of view, will be (for the
most part) intolerant of clichés, and will give serious thought to how story and description create
meaning.