CRW 3110 - Spring 2026 - Schultz

Everyone has a war story to tell. Each of our war stories is just as important, creative, and unique as any other war story. This course is an introduction to what exactly constitutes a war story (hint: just about anything can be viewed as a war story!). We will also hold workshops in which fledgling writers work with other serious and supportive writers to explore the best and most effective ways to tell his/her/their war story. The course begins with two seminar-style classes in which we investigate the writing process and the editing process. For the rest of the semester, each session begins with a fifteen-minute mini-lesson covering a specific aspect of creative writing. The core of each session will be the peer workshop, in which we foster a healthy, supportive, and rigorous conversation about each war story. We will discuss each submission for thirty minutes. Course readings will include excerpts, short fiction, interviews, and essays by military veterans and civilian war correspondents, as well as narratives of those affected by war.