CW 114 WA — Ignite Your Imagination: A Generative Course
Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Christine Sneed
Date(s): Sep 24—Oct 22
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 12:00—1:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $430
Refund Deadline: Sep 26
Unit(s): 1
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Fall
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 5 weeks
Time: 12:00—1:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 24—Oct 22
Unit(s): 1
Tuition: $430
Refund Deadline: Sep 26
Instructor(s): Christine Sneed
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Whether you’ve long meant to make time for writing in your life or have only recently begun considering it, this course will offer a supportive environment where we’ll set perfectionism aside and focus on writing without constraining expectations. You’ll receive a prompt via email each weekday and 2–3 more in our weekly class Zoom meetings, each designed to cue up your imagination’s slideshow of arresting imagery and memorable situations and characters—whether you’re writing poetry, fiction, or nonfiction.
We’ll also read an eclectic range of published work by writers including Dean Young, Edward P. Jones, Brian Doyle, and Elizabeth McKenzie: poems, flash fiction and nonfiction, excerpts from longer works, and found texts chosen for their vibrancy, singularity, and emotional charge. Our goal each week will be to embrace our rogue creative impulses—whether they’re dramatic, comedic, or somewhere in between—to unleash surprising and inevitable words on the page.
We’ll also read an eclectic range of published work by writers including Dean Young, Edward P. Jones, Brian Doyle, and Elizabeth McKenzie: poems, flash fiction and nonfiction, excerpts from longer works, and found texts chosen for their vibrancy, singularity, and emotional charge. Our goal each week will be to embrace our rogue creative impulses—whether they’re dramatic, comedic, or somewhere in between—to unleash surprising and inevitable words on the page.
Because of the high enrollment capacity, students will not receive instructor feedback on daily writing posts. Sections WA and WB of “Ignite Your Imagination: A Generative Course” share the same objective but use different daily prompts. Students may register for Section WA, Section WB, or both.
CHRISTINE SNEED
Author
Christine Sneed is the author of six books, including Little Known Facts, The Virginity of Famous Men, and Paris, He Said. She's received the Grace Paley Prize, a Society of Midland Authors Award, and the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, among other honors. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New England Review, Ploughshares, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is faculty director of Northwestern's School of Professional Studies' graduate writing program. Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.