An intensive study of the writing of fiction. poetry or nonfiction focusing on advanced techniques of narration, exposition, descriptive detail, scene development, point of view, and other elements of craft with an emphasis on the complex influences of place, the natural world, and the environmental imagination. All instruction and discussion is revision-based. Students must make manuscript of at least 10 to 25 pages during the residency (10 pages in poetry and up to 25 in fiction and nonfiction) and five submissions of equal length in the mentoring component of the semester. Taken during the third semester of the program. Open only to those students accepted into the emphasis at the time of MFA program acceptance.
CRW 620: Environmental Writing I:
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