Creative Writing Courses
Writing the Novella - Stephanie Grant and Judith Frank

Writing the Novella.  (Also English 309-01 at Mount Holyoke College.)  An advanced writing workshop devoted to the reading and writing of novellas.  We will study such novellas as Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Jane Smiley’s The Age of Grief, Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day, and William Gass’s The Pedersen Kid, in order to get a sense of the parameters and scope of this in-between form.  Students will write up to ten pages per week with the aim of composing and revising a work of 70-80 pages by the end of the semester. Requisite:  a previous fiction-writing workshop.  Admission with consent of the instructors.  Limited to 12 students.  

Admissions Procedure:

In this course, we will accept six students from Amherst, and six from
Mt. Holyoke. This course requires preregistration, with the consent of
the professor. Please sign up for her office hours during
preregistration, and come with a writing sample (fiction, 10 pages).

Additional Information

Please put your name on every page of your writing sample. Your contact information (school, year, phone, e-mail) should go on the first page.