Fall 2023 Course Atlas
CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM COURSE ATLAS
All students must take one 200-level Introduction class at Oxford College or Emory (270W, 271W, or 272W) before advancing to Intermediate 300-level workshops in prose or poetry. The same is required of non-majors who wish to take Creative Writing workshops, though some instructors may choose to waive this requirement for junior and senior non-majors. The requirement is never waived for majors.
Fall 2023 courses that do not require a 200-level introductory class:
- ENGCW/THEA 372RW Intermediate Playwriting
- ENGCW 385RW and crosslists AAS/AMST/HIST 387RW Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases
Students who have completed the 200-level requirement may apply to any Intermediate workshop.
A 300-level Intermediate course is a pre-requisite for Advanced courses, which are usually offered in the Spring semester. Students who wish to take an Advanced course in fiction, poetry, or playwriting must receive a grade of A or A- in their Intermediate 300-level course.
Please see http://creativewriting.emory.edu/home/academics/major-english-creative-writing.html for more information about the Creative Writing Program requirements.
Permission is required to enroll in all Creative Writing classes. Students must fill out an application and submit to the Creative Writing Program office via email to Nora Lewis at nora.lewis@emory.edu. If your application includes a writing sample, it must be attached to the application and sent as ONE DOCUMENT IN WORD FORMAT. Your email subject line must include "application" -- failure to use this keyword may result in a delayed response.
Application forms may be downloaded from the Creative Writing Program website at https://creativewriting.emory.edu/academics/Course%20Application.html or email nora.lewis@emory.edu to request a copy.
Applications will be accepted until the end of Add/Drop/Swap in the Fall (or until classes are full/closed).
All classes are HAPW unless otherwise noted.
All classes have a maximum of 15 students unless otherwise noted.
DO NOT EMAIL AN INSTRUCTOR FOR PERMISSION. The instructors will forward your email to the Creative Writing Program administrator, and you will receive a reminder that the proper procedure to apply for a class is to submit your application (and writing sample, if required) to Nora Lewis.
If you are not sure if a course is open, or have any other questions, please email Nora Lewis at nora.lewis@emory.edu. ***OPUS is NOT an accurate picture of availability*** as students who have been accepted into a class may have not yet registered or been added in.
Students will receive an email from Nora Lewis with information about acceptance into classes.
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CREATIVE WRITING FALL 2023 COURSE ATLAS
(IN PROGRESS - info added as received from instructors)
ENGCW 190 Freshman Seminar
ENGCW 190-1: Freshman Seminar: Writing Bodies in the World MAX: 12 students GER: FSEM
(crosslisted with AAS 190-3, ENVS 190-3, and LACS 190-1)
Yanique Wednesday 1:00-3:45
NO APPLICATION REQUIRED
Content: TBA
ENGCW 271W Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENGCW 271W: Introduction to Poetry Writing (three sections) MAX: 15 students each section
Extracurricular activities for all sections:
Students are required to attend Creative Writing Program readings and colloquia outside of class time and are encouraged to attend any other activities co-sponsored by the Program.
Pre-requisite: None
Sections:
ENGCW 271W-1 staff Monday 2:30-5:30
ENGCW 271W-2 staff Tuesday 2:30-5:30
ENGCW 271W-3 staff Wednesday 2:30-5:30
Content: TBA
ENGCW 272W Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENGCW 272W: Introduction to Fiction Writing (four sections) MAX: 15 students each section
Extracurricular activities for all sections:
Students are required to attend Creative Writing Program readings and colloquia outside of class time and are encouraged to attend any other activities co-sponsored by the Program.
Pre-requisite: None
Sections:
ENGCW 272W-1 Skibell Monday 2:30-5:30
ENGCW 272W-2 Cooper Tuesday 2:30-5:15
ENGCW 272W-3 Sathian Wednesday 2:30-5:15
ENGCW 272W-4 Yanique Thursday 1:00-3:45
Skibell's section:
Students must attend at least the second class to enroll
Content for all sections: TBA
ENGCW 370RW Intermediate Fiction
ENGCW 370RW: Intermediate Fiction Writing (three sections) MAX: 15 students each section
NOTES REGARDING APPLICATION TO THIS COURSE:
- Pre-requisite: Any 200-level Creative Writing workshop (ENGCW 270W, 271W, 272W)
- Applications must include a writing sample of 10-15 pages of fiction
- Applications must be submitted in Word format as ONE DOCUMENT with writing sample attached
Extracurricular activities for all sections:
Students are required to attend Creative Writing Program readings and colloquia outside of class time and are encouraged to attend any other activities co-sponsored by the Program.
Sections:
ENGCW 370RW-1 Jones Tuesday 2:30-5:30
ENGCW 370RW-2 Cooper Wednesday 2:30-5:30
ENGCW 370RW-3 Sathian Thursday 2:30-5:30
Content: TBA
ENGCW 371RW Intermediate Poetry
ENGCW 371RW: Intermediate Poetry Writing (two sections) MAX: 15 students each section
NOTES REGARDING APPLICATION TO THIS COURSE:
- Pre-requisite: Any 200-level Creative Writing workshop (ENGCW 270W, 271W, 272W)
- Applications must include a writing sample of 3-4 poems, each poem on a separate page
- Applications must be submitted in Word format as ONE DOCUMENT with writing sample attached
Extracurricular activities for both sections:
Students are required to attend Creative Writing Program readings and colloquia outside of class time and are encouraged to attend any other activities co-sponsored by the Program.
Sections:
ENGCW 371RW-1 staff Monday 2:30-5:30
ENGCW 371RW-2 staff Tuesday 2:30-5:30
Content: TBA
ENGCW/THEA 372RW Playwriting
ENGCW/THEA 372RW-1: Intermediate Playwriting Belflower Tuesday 2:30-5:30
MAX: 15 (ENGCW: 10, THEA: 5)
Pre-requisite: None
This is a permission-only course and all students, including Theater Studies students, must apply through the Creative Writing Program. Applications may be downloaded from the "Course Application" tab on the left (https://creativewriting.emory.edu/academics/Course%20Application.html) or obtained by emailing Nora Lewis at nora.lewis@emory.edu.
Writing sample requirement: 2-5 pages in any genre, preferably dramatic writing or poetry. Please include your sample with your application in ONE Word document.
Extracurricular Activities:
Students are required to attend and write short responses about selected readings sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, as well as productions by Theater Emory and/or in the greater Atlanta community.
Content:TBA
ENGCW 376RW Creative Nonfiction
ENGCW 376RW-1: Creative Nonfiction Skibell Tuesday 2:30-5:30
MAX: 10 students
Students must attend at least the second class to enroll
NOTES REGARDING APPLICATION TO THIS COURSE:
- Pre-requisite: Any 200-level Creative Writing workshop (ENGCW 270W, 271W, 272W)
- Applications must include a writing sample of 5 pages in any genre
- Applications must be submitted in Word format as ONE DOCUMENT with writing sample attached
Content:
This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of writing personal nonfiction narratives. We will explore the basic elements of storytelling -- character, plot, setting, structure, dialogue, etc. -- and how each is used in creating a story out of the events of one’s own life. Students will learn how to turn a true story into a written narrative. Editing skills will be sharpened in discussion and evaluation of one another’s works-in-progress. The course will concentrate on the creation of three short nonfiction pieces as well as considerations of technique, creation of real characters, and dramatic structure. Classes will be conducted as workshops in which the main emphasis is on the students' own work, and short lectures, with some in-class writing and improvisation.
Texts:
A PDF compendium of stories
Assessment:
Students will be assessed on their performance based on a 100-point system. Class attendance makes up 26 points. Peer responses equal 28. Each story is worth 10 points, and proof of attendance at a Creative Writing Reading Series event or another literary event is worth 2.5 points each. The other 11 points is the professor’s evaluation of the student’s writing and critical reading skills.
Extracurricular activities:
Students are required to attend Creative Writing Program readings and colloquia outside of class time and are encouraged to attend any other activities co-sponsored by the Program.
ENGCW/FILM 378RW: Screenwriting
ENGCW 378RW-1/FILM 378RW-2: Screenwriting MAX: 15 (ENGCW: 10, FILM: 5)
staff Thursday 2:30-5:30
The Screenwriting section taught by Professor Joe Conway does not require an application. The class does count as a Creative Writing workshop for majors.
APPLICATION INFORMATION:
This is a permission-only course and all students, including Film and Media Studies students, must apply through the Creative Writing Program. Applications may be downloaded from the "Course Application" tab on the left (https://creativewriting.emory.edu/academics/Course%20Application.html) or obtained by emailing Nora Lewis at nora.lewis@emory.edu.
Applications must include a writing sample of 2-5 pages in any genre, preferably prose narrative.
PRE-REQUISITE - Screenwriting applicants must have taken one of these classes:
- ENGCW 270W Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGCW 271W Introduction to Poetry Writing
- ENGCW 272W Introduction to Fiction Writing
- FILM 101 Introduction to Film (formerly FILM 270)
Content: TBA
ENGCW 385RW/AAS/AMST/HIST 387RW Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases
ENGCW 385RW-1: Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Klibanoff Tuesday 2:30-5:15
(Crosslisted with AAS/AMST/HIST 387RW-1) MAX: 16 (4 each subject)
Pre-requisites: none
Content:
In the years between 1945 and 1968, untold numbers of American citizens were targeted for death because of their race, beliefs, or civil rights work – and in some cases merely because of what they drove, how they spoke, or the ever-shifting lines of racial etiquette they crossed. In many cases, their murders were inadequately investigated or prosecuted, their stories left untold, and the crimes against their humanity never punished. The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University is both a class and an ongoing historical and journalistic exploration of the Jim Crow South through the prism of unsolved or unpunished civil rights-era murders in Georgia. Using primary evidence – including FBI records, NAACP files, old newspaper clippings, court transcripts, and personal archives – students come to see and understand history from the inside out. Student essays, grounded in secondary readings that provide broader context, will be aimed at the project website, coldcases.emory.edu. Students also may become engaged in the fourth season of a podcast, Buried Truths, based on a case we’ll be examining in class.
Students should budget for photocopying.
NOTE: This course is not open to first-year students. All students, including students from African American Studies, American Studies, and History, must fill out and submit the application form in Word format and include a writing sample of 3 pages of nonfiction.
Texts:
Course packet handed out in class
Assessment:
There will be frequent writing assignments and frequent requests to revise your work. I will read your work closely, make comments on your theme, your structure, your language, word selection, grammar, punctuation, spelling and citations, as well as your integration of primary evidence and secondary material. You may work on a team project, may be tasked to help with the podcast Buried Truths, and will write an 8- to 10-page final paper. I will build in time for peer review of your work. I will meet with you out of class to focus on both the research and the writing. You will see that I am as serious about your mastery of writing as I am of your command of the historical events we will examine. My goal is not merely for you to learn and understand the history, but to be able to convey it clearly.
Extracurricular activities:
Students are required to attend readings and colloquia sponsored by the Creative Writing Program outside of class time.
ENGCW 389W Special Topics: Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath
ENGCW 389W-1 Special Topics: Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath
Schiff Wednesday 2:30-5:30
MAX: 15 students
NOTES REGARDING APPLICATION TO THIS COURSE:
- Pre-requisite: ENGCW 271W Introduction to Poetry Writing
- Applications must include a writing sample of 3-4 poems on separate pages
- Applications must be submitted in Word format as ONE DOCUMENT with writing sample attached
NOTE: The priority deadline to apply is April 24, 2023.
Extracurricular activities:
Students are required to attend Creative Writing Program readings and colloquia outside of class time and are encouraged to attend any other activities co-sponsored by the Program.
Content: TBA
ENGCW 495RW Honors
Permission required: Accepted Honors students only. One semester of Honors counts as a workshop.
Pre-requisite: Approval of project by Honors thesis director.
Please review Honors application guidelines at http://creativewriting.emory.edu/home/academics/honors-program.html