Introducing Creations: Creative Writing

Critical thinking and creativity are skills needed in any discipline. Creations offers students the opportunity to develop these tools through a dynamic and in-depth course that focuses on fiction writing. Through challenging reading and writing activities, students will gain a deeper understanding of the elements of fiction, improve their own fiction writing, and learn how to effectively critique a piece of literature. By developing these skills, this course will prepare students for college-level English literature, humanities, and writing courses. 

Student Reviews

“Working with my tutor to improve my writing has been a very rewarding experience. I’ve received large amounts of feedback that help to improve my writing and have also picked up multiple skills along the way. Despite the course load, there’s always large amounts of laughter and joy during and after the class.” – Richard Z.

How does Creations get there?

Through reading the works of Melville, Calvino, Hemingway, Chekhov, and others, students will develop skills in analyzing, discussing, reading, and writing fiction. In this six week course, students are challenged to to actively engage with a wide variety of fiction. By the end of the course, students will have read and responded to short stories and written weekly flash fiction pieces as well as a full-length short story. They will also have gained an increased aptitude for reading and analysis, while building confidence in their own ability to write fiction.

Instructors

Creations’ teachers work alongside students to help them explore and expand their creative writing skills. Our instructors have a strong background in English, creative writing, and editing. They have all studied at prestigious colleges and universities and gained relevant experience through their professional careers, making them experts in their fields. Because Creations is taught in the style of a college-level class, teachers will set high expectations for students and challenge them to meet those expectations.

Class Organization

Each one-hour class is divided into two sections. Students spend the first half of each class discussing the assigned readings. This class is presented as a college-level course, so students are expected to come to the class discussions ready to participate in an in-depth critique of the course material.

In the second half of class, students focus on workshopping fiction assignments as well as completing creative writing exercises.