CRW 5130 Fall 2020 Butler

The graduate fiction workshop under Robert Olen Butler will, as it traditionally does, move beyond craft and technique and place its primary emphasis on the artistic process. As well, though the workshop will be open to the development of works of fiction of any length from flash to novel, it will do so by proceeding on the deep conviction that the beginning pages of any work of literary fiction are utterly critical in establishing the essentials of its narrative. Students must expect to write fictional beginnings—most often rigorously for a large part of the semester—until the work is soundly underway.