How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: concise, accessible instruction in literary basics; short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.
How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: concise, accessible instruction in literary basics; short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.