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OWC 305 B — Novel III: Subtext, Theme, and Language

Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Julia Pierpont
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: Online
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Class Meeting Time: 6:00—7:15 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
Tuition: $1290
   
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 15
  
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Fall
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 6:00—7:15 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Unit(s): 2
Location: Online
 
Tuition: $1290
 
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
 
Instructor(s): Julia Pierpont
 
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
 
Enrollment Limit: 15
 
Recording Available: Yes
 
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
 
 
This course is not open to the public, but rather by admission only. For more information on the Writing Certificate Program and its application process, please click here.

In this course, we will continue to build on the foundational elements of storytelling that have been laid down in the previous courses. We will home in on the relationships among present action, backstory, and subtext. We will ponder the crucial collision point between plot and characterization. Your novel's subconscious concerns will slowly rise to the surface as we delve deeper and try to uncover your theme. This course will have an extensive workshop component, so the focus will stay on the students’ novels. The goal will be for each student to complete a draft—however rough it may be—of their novel before thesis instruction.

JULIA PIERPONT
Author

Julia Pierpont is the author of the best-selling novel Among the Ten Thousand Things, which received the Prix Fitzgerald in France, as well as The Little Book of Feminist Saints. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She received an MFA from NYU.