Department of English at the University of Virginia

ENWR 532 Advanced Poetry Writing

1700-1930 M - BRYAN 233

Restricted to Instructor Permission

Instructor: Gregory Orr

This will be a weekly, 2 1/2 hour workshop involving some outside reading, exercises, and assignments, but primarily centered around the generation and discussion of student poems with an eye to revision. This workshop is open to undergraduates with advanced poetry writing background, graduate students from around the university who possess the requisite writing background, and Citizen Scholars who likewise have a demonstrated background and involvement in poetry writing. Space Limited. PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. Please note the early DEADLINE for SUBMISSION OF 4 TO 5 POEMS: JANUARY 9. Poems can be submitted by email (gso@virginia.edu) or delivered to my mailbox on the second floor of Bryan Hall BY THE DEADLINE. Include contact information with submissions.

ENWR 732 MFA Poetry Workshop

1400-1630 M - BRYAN 233

Restricted to Instructor Permission

Instructor: Rita Dove

A weekly 2-1/2 hour advanced poetry writing workshop. Periodic individual conferences with the instructor, relevant outside reading, writing assignments, and a final portfolio of poems will be required. Permission of the instructor required before registering for this course.

ENWR 732 Poetry Thesis Preparation

1400-1630 W - Location TBA

Restricted to Instructor Permission

Instructor: Charles Wright

A once-weekly workshop that will focus on the discussion of student poems, craft issues, and exemplary poems by contemporary poets.

ENWR 552 Craft of Fiction Workshop
1500-1730 W - CABELL 432
Restricted to Instructor Permission

Instructor: Christopher Tilghman

This advanced workshop is for students who have already put substantial effort into writing fiction and who are ready to deepen their mastery over the discrete crafts and techniques of fiction.  Based somewhat on the insights of narrative theory and on brief examinations of canonical works, this course will consist primarily of weekly writing assignments designed to help writers achieve the nuanced effects available through manipulation of narrative perspective and narrative distance, time and temporal structure, spoken discourse and representations of consciousness, narrative situation and embedded plots.  The course is built upon the precepts of contemporary realism, but many of the assignments encourage sure-handed experimentation based on a stronger grasp of narrative fundamentals.   Toward the end of the course each student will present one short story for review and class comment.

ENWR 752 MFA Fiction Workshop

1530-1800 W - BRYAN 310

Restricted to Instructor Permission

Instructor: John Casey

A fiction-writing workshop for MFA candidates.

ENWR 752 MFA Fiction Workshop

1500-1730 T - CABELL 241

Restricted to Instructor Permission

Instructor: Ann Beattie

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