Grades 8 - 12
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college undergraduate
one course below: 0.5 credit
Session Dates and Application Deadlines
20 weeks (Fall and Early Spring), 12 weeks (Early Summer), or 6 weeks (Intensive Midsummer) Alternating literary analysis with imaginative writing, students examine principles and practices of fiction writing, such as plot, theme, and character development. Fiction assignments are typical of those in John Gardner's books The Art of Fiction and On Becoming a Novelist and of those in undergraduate fiction courses such as the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. The course strongly emphasizes comprehensive revision based on comments from the instructor. By the end of the course, students have polished pieces of short fiction which demonstrate their working knowledge of the principal tenets of writing fiction. 2 hours weekly for 20 week sessions (Fall & Early Spring) 3.5 hours weekly for 12 week session (Early Summer) 1.5 hours Monday - Friday during 6 week session (Intensive Midsummer)
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