CRW 4120 Butler Spring 2021

The spring undergraduate fiction workshop under Robert Olen Butler, as it traditionally does, will focus intensively on the essentials of process in creating literary narrative. He has found that the most elusive of these essentials are best explored by his proposing an aesthetic theory of the short short story, both as a distinct art form and as a paradigm for the beginning of any effective work of fiction, and then working strictly in that form for most, if not all, of the semester.