The Beginning Fiction Workshop is designed for students who have little or no experience writing imaginative prose. Students are introduced to a range of craft concerns through exercises and discussions, and eventually produce their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.

The Beginning Fiction Workshop is designed for students who have little or no experience writing imaginative prose. Students are introduced to a range of craft concerns through exercises and discussions, and eventually produce their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.

The Beginning Fiction Workshop is designed for students who have little or no experience writing imaginative prose. Students are introduced to a range of craft concerns through exercises and discussions, and eventually produce their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.

Prerequisites: Students must submit 10-20 double-spaced pages of fiction and the approval of the instructor. Writing samples must be submitted electronically as an attachment to summerterm@columbia.edu. Samples should include your name on the first page. In the body of the email please list your name, school, year, UNI and the course you are applying to. Submissions must be received by 4:00 pm Tuesday, May 12. Students will be notified of the final decision by email. Students who are accepted into the course will be registered at that time.

The Intermediate Fiction Workshop is for students with some creative writing experience and whose prior work merits admission to the class (as judged by the professor). Intermediate workshops present a higher creative standard than beginning workshops, and increased expectations to produce finished work. Students are additionally expected to write extensive critiques of the work of their peers, and to explore questions of craft with increased rigor.

The Beginning Poetry Workshop is designed for students who have a serious interest in poetry writing but who lack a significant background in the rudiments of the craft and/or have had little or no previous poetry workshop experience. Students will be assigned weekly writing exercises emphasizing such aspects of verse composition as the poetic line, the image, rhyme and other sound devices, verse forms, repetition, tone, irony, and others. Students will also read an extensive variety of exemplary work in verse, submit brief critical analyses of poems, and critique each other's original work.

The Beginning Nonfiction Workshop is designed for students new to the practice of such genres as reportage, criticism, biography and memoir. Various techniques are explored through exercises and other assignments. Critique of student work is supplemented by outside readings.