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Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop (ENGL6901)
Semester 2 / 2011

Texts

y separately published work icon The Best Australian Stories 2009 Delia Falconer (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 Z1652008 2009 anthology short story extract (taught in 2 units) 'After searching high and low for the year's outstanding short fiction, Delia Falconer has selected masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors and exciting work from the up-and-coming. 'Stories don't have the novel's luxury of great swathes of time, its layerings, its wanderings, its counterpoints,' she observes. 'Instead, they must cut to the bone straightaway ... Sometimes they capture a shift in a whole world; at other times they put into words a mood or tone that we might not have seen, until it appears so beautifully before us. ' With their wry humor, quiet intensity and elegant economy, these stories display Australian writing at its diverse, unpredictable best.' (Publication summary)

Description

Students are required to produce written, fictional work throughout the unit for discussion in class.

Assessment

Original written work due mid and end of semester, totalling 6,000 words.

Other Details

Offered in: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Current Campus: Camperdown/Darlington
Levels: Postgraduate
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