Writing Fiction with The New York Times

(EGL 292 W)

Have you ever dreamed of having your writing reviewed by the staff of the The New York Times Book Review? Here’s your chance. In this exciting course, Scott Hutchins, lead instructor for The Online Writer’s Studio, will co-teach a fiction workshop with Greg Cowles of The New York Times Book Review. Over the course of the term, students will study the craft of fiction with both Hutchins and Cowles. Students will complete weekly writing exercises, culminating in a longer work of fiction that Cowles will critique. Reading will also be a key emphasis here. Hutchins will help students write their short stories and novel excerpts, which will be the backbone of the course, and Cowles will take students through a novel he recently reviewed, illuminating what he thinks makes it work or not. Short story writers and novelists: This is a chance not to be missed.

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Scott Hutchins, Former Stegner Fellow and Capote Fellow

Scott Hutchins in the lead instructor for The Online Writer’s Studio. His fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Esquire.com, and Five Chapters, and has recently been set to music. He received two major Hopwood Awards and was an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Greg Cowles, Editor

Greg Cowles received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he had a teachingwriting fellowship. The recipient of grants from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, he has worked in The New Yorker’s fiction department and is currently a staff editor at The New York Times Book Review.