This intensive creative writing course is an exploration and study into the craft of creative writing. Students will read poems, essays, and short stories by well-known authors and acquire the skills necessary to hone their own personalized writing process. Students will be able to recognize how each creative writing piece sets its own terms and lives by them. They will practice writing like a reader and reading like a writer. With the aid of class discussions, exercises, and workshops, students will learn the fundamentals of creative writing, enhance their creative thinking, and complete the course with their own portfolio of creative work. Most importantly, students will become a part of a supportive and welcoming writing community.

Genre(s): Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Location(s): Palo Alto, CA

Submissions Open: Various

Submissions Close: February 27

Submission Fee: $65 (application) & $3,080 (summer program tuition)

Fee Waiver: Yes

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