Creative Writing Course Listing

A Creative Writing Concentration within and in addition to the English major is offered as another option in development of skills in creative writing. The requirements for the concentration are specified in the "English" section of this catalogue.

Courses

EN278  Fiction 1.   Introduction to the writing of fiction, with emphasis on on student manuscripts. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite: English 115. Four Credit Hours. A.   BLEVINS, BOYLAN, N. HARRIS, SPARK

EN279  Poetry 1.   Introduction to the writing of poetry, with emphasis on student manuscripts. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite: English 115. Four Credit Hours. A.   BLEVINS, P. HARRIS

EN378  Fiction 2.   Practice in the writing of short stories, with major emphasis on student manuscripts. Enrollment is limited; admission is by manuscript submission only. Consult instructor for deadlines and format for manuscript submission. Manuscripts are used as a basis for determining enrollment.
Prerequisite: English 278. Four Credit Hours. BLEVINS, BOYLAN, N. HARRIS, SPARK

EN379  Poetry 2.   Practice in the writing of poetry, with major emphasis on student manuscripts. Enrollment is limited; admission is by manuscript submission only. See instructor for deadlines and format for manuscript submission. Manuscripts are used as a basis for determining enrollment.
Prerequisite: English 279. Four Credit Hours. BLEVINS, P. HARRIS

EN380  Creative Nonfiction.   Creative nonfiction includes renderings of personal experience, presentations of opinion and passion, profiles of people, and evocations of time and place. Based upon "fact," it uses elements of fiction. A writing workshop with weekly assignments designed to help students find their best material and their strongest voices. Also, reading and discussion of the work of published essayists. Counts as a Creative Writing "fourth requirement."
Four Credit Hours. A.   N. HARRIS

EN382  Environmental Writing: Writing on Place.   Practice in the forms of nonfiction that seek to evoke and represent place, and experiences of it. A writing workshop that begins with sample readings, followed by assignments, then consideration of student work. Counts as a Creative Writing "fourth requirement."
Four Credit Hours. A.   BURKE.

EN478 Advanced Topics in Prose. Before the semester begins, students devise independent prose projects and individual reading lists which they pursue over the course of the semester.
Prerequisite: English 378 and permission of the instructor. Four Credit Hours. A. BOYLAN, SPARK.

EN479 Advanced Topics in Poetry. Before the semester begins, students devise independent prose projects and individual reading lists which they pursue over the course of the semester.
Prerequisite: English 379 and permission of the instructor. Four Credit Hours. A. BLEVINS, P. HARRIS.

EN480 Teaching Poetry in the Schools. A civic engagement class in which Colby students teach the writing of poetry in local schools. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Four credit hours. A. P. HARRIS

Other courses offered when the schedule allows: Imaginative Writing, Playwriting, Gendered Memoir, Screenwriting, Poetry-in-the-Schools, Feature Writing, and Creative Nonfiction 2.