Advanced Fiction Workshop: Writing Place-Sinking Deeper into Landscape *

Can place be rendered so richly it becomes a character unto itself? In this course we will explore the ways writers deepen a reader's sense of place, and showcase the ways setting can pressurize a narrative and a life, through events related to climate, environmental degradation, and migration. This course will be useful to prose writers of all types, as we explore both non-fiction and fiction - like work by Vladimir Nabokov, Jamaica Kincad, Sarah M. Broom, Daphne du Maurier, and Pitchaya Sudbandthad - in order to observe technique, intention, and impact. Students will read critically and also produce place-based work of their own. This course will be of particular interest to environmentally engaged students looking to process loss and degradation of place in their work.(Any 100-level CRWR course) (This course is not a college writing course) 3 hrs. sem.