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Creative Writing Courses Students with an interest and an ability in creative writing may receive major credit for one semester of course work in such writing. Students who submit a portfolio of work, no later than the end of the first term of their junior year, may be admitted to the creative writing "concentration," which consists of three courses in creative writing, one of which may be the Senior Essay written for English 399b. 291 Poetry Writing: A Practical Workshop A poetry workshop with discussion centering on student writing. Readings are drawn from contemporary American and British poets, from their criticism as well as their poetry. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration. 292 Writing Poetry Staff Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration. 293A Fiction Writing: From the Conventional to the Experimental This course invites students to read and write across a spectrum, starting with recognizably conventional short stories and heading into so-called "experimental" territory. We'll look at how traditional modes of story-telling have been both honored and disrupted by twentieth-century writers. Students will perform their own experiements with plot structures, narrative stances, and linguistic strategies through the fashioning of two short-short pieces and two longer stories. Enrollment limited to 15. 294 Fiction Writing: States of Mind This course invites students to explore how human subjectivity is evoked in fiction--that is, how psychic depth and flux find distinctive utterance in a text. Students will experiment with strategies for evoking mindscape in two short-short pieces and two longer stories. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: Writing sample required for consideration.   200-level courses 300-level courses