Creative Writing Minor

This course serves as an introduction to the various practices of the emerging field of creative non-fiction, including memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, travel writing and hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. This course may be taken twice as long as topics differ.

Whether you are interested in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or cross genre writing, this course will help you explore ways to get your work into the world. Students will focus on small press publishers, artist made books, ‘zines and literary journals. Creative writing experiments will result in your own independent publishing project which will be a chapbook, ‘zine or handmade book.

Participants will be putting pen to paper with weekly writing assignments covering the basic concepts of playwriting: characterization, dialogue and plot development. This will be an active participation class with students sharing and talking about their own and each other’s work in class as they develop their scenes and one act dramas.

In this course students will work on a long form project in one of the following genres of their choice: creative nonfiction, poetry, or fiction writing. Writing can be experimental or hybrid. This is the only course offered where students can work on a piece of creative writing in the long form. We will read contemporary literature and have regular workshops, editing sessions, and accountability groups. If you have wanted to write a book that is literary fiction, a novella, a poetry collection, a memoir, or a collection of essays, this class is for you.

Stonehill College has developed academic affiliations with colleges and universities that enable our students to augment the degree they earn at Stonehill with graduate and undergraduate degrees that further enhance their opportunities.