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Fiction Writing: The Short Story Cycle (Online Course) (EGL 275 W)
Ever since Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, writers have been attracted to the short story cycle—a collection of freestanding short stories that share the same characters, setting, or themes. Also called "novels-in-stories," these collections combine the poetic immediacy of the short story with the scope and emotional investment of a novel. In the past ten years, they have become so popular that it is rare to visit a bookstore without encountering one of these linked collections prominently displayed among the new releases. In this online course, we will write a series of linked exercises that are suggestive of the form, culminating in a full-length short story that will be critiqued by the class. We will also read celebrated examples of the short story cycle by writers such as Alice Munro and Russell Banks, looking at them through the lens of literary craft. The goal of this course is to help intermediate short story writers begin to think in terms of a longer project, one that may someday lead to a unified, marketable, compellingly original book.
Rusty Dolleman
Former Stegner Fellow
Rusty Dolleman received an MA in English and Writing
from the University of New Hampshire. He is currently
a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford.
His short fiction has been featured in The Massachusetts
Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Beloit Fiction
Journal, among others.
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Course Details
10 weeks
Jun 23 - Aug 31
3 units $750
Limit: 17
Drop by: Jun 26
Special refund deadline: June 26
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