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Instructor

Gillian Parrish

Class Type 

Lit & Craft [& Workshop in final fortnight]

Course Description

This course will open with a week of memoir essays by writers who share their personal histories with fairytales, giving us a chance to reflect on our own connections with the genre. We will go on to explore contemporary fairytale retellings by some of today³ÉÈËÊÓÆµ™s best loved literary and sci-fi/fantasy writersWe will also explore a middle-grade book that includes fairytale elements. While fairytales³ÉÈËÊÓÆµ™ primary gift to writers is in plotting and imagery, we will also include a fairytale figure of the witch to generate work. In our final fortnight together, we will workshop one of your flash pieces and turn to work that you select for us to explore.

Textbook

Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
Parisien, Dominik / Wolfe, Navah
9781481456135

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Bernheimer, Kate (Ed.)
9780385486811

Louisiana³ÉÈËÊÓÆµ™s Way Home
DiCamillo
9781536207996

Joe Baumann

Department Head
Writing (MFA)