The Art of the Short Story
Each week in this advanced workshop, offered through the
UCLA Extension Writers' Program, we'll critique in detail three student stories, to be read prior to class (so please allot several hours of prep time and plan to be in attendance at least nine of the ten weeks). We'll also talk about publishing strategies and other practical matters. Participants have gone on to enroll in graduate programs at Alabama, Antioch, Columbia, George Mason, Johns Hopkins, Iowa, Maryland and Warren Wilson, and to publish stories in
Calyx, Cimarron Review, Harvard Review, Mississippi Review.com, Nimrod, North American Review, Phoebe, Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, Seattle Review, Stand, West Branch, and elsewhere. (Read as much of
Writing in General & the Short Story in Particular by Rust Hills before the first class as you can.) 10 weeks, Weds. 7-10 pm, June 30 - Sept. 1.
PLEASE NOTE: the July 21 class will meet a day early, Tuesday July 20, because of a prior commitment (see Events/News, next page.)
Emerson College Fall 2010
(Syllabi to be updated soon)
Topics in American Lit: L.A. Stories
Los Angeles has inspired writers and communicators like few other cities. This course, offered through
Emerson College, will explore a variety of narrative repre-sentations of L.A. across different media and genres and will offer each student a chance to create his or her own L.A. story—a work of fiction, literary journalism, or another form to be agreed upon with the instructor. By reading or viewing and then discussing the works of Nathanael West, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, and many others, students will develop not only a deeper knowledge of the city in which they now find themselves, but will also learn about the creative processes and themes through which L.A. has come to be most widely understood.
Los Angeles Internship Course
The internship course serves as an academic complement to the student’s practical internship training, to give each student a larger sense of what the internship experience signifies—personally as well as culturally.
Wearing her trademark beret,
Suzanne Lummis, poet and grand-daughter of city booster Charles Fletcher Lummis, visits the spring '04 L.A. Stories class.
