106-026 Writing Extended Fiction

It is recommended that students wishing to continue with a major in Creative Writing also complete a first year subject in English Literary Studies as well as meeting the first year Creative Writing prerequisite (see below).

Usually 12.5 points of first year creative writing, either 106-186 Creative Writing: Autofictions or 760-101 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice. This subject is available at second year level to Bachelor of Creative Arts students who have completed all first year BCA Creative Writing requirements.

This subject is designed to help students conceive, research and design a work of extended fiction. Students are encouraged to think about relevant contemporary issues, to research thematic and conceptual material, and to think macro-structurally about extended works: whether verse novels, novella, discontinuous narratives, or novels. Students will research and design an extended work, and produce for assessment an advanced project proposal and a polished extract of this work.

• acquire particular generic skills and should be able to:

• use a range of techniques to tap creative ideas;

• plan feasible creative projects for a given time-frame and word length;

• use structure and style with economy and power across a range of genres.

All students will be required to give a workshop presentation during the semester and submit a draft proposal for an extended fiction consisting of a synopsis and a critical reflection of not more than 500 words and a draft sample of the fiction of not more than 500 words. These drafts will be returned with comments and resubmitted in a refined and extended form for final assessment of an extract from the extended fiction of not more than 3500 words total and a revised project proposal of not more than 500 words 80% (due at the end of semester), workshop participation 10% and a writer's notebook 10% (due at the end of semester). Students are required to attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to have their work assessed in this subject.

A subject reader will be available from the University Bookshop.