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Fiction: Recent Summary

You will be introduced to the fundamentals of writing short fiction, such as scene structure, character development, plot and structure, point of view, voice, diction, description through specific detail, revision. A textbook will underline fiction’s basic components; a Course Pack of readings selected by the instructor will provide models to discuss according to those components; lectures will elaborate on concepts. You will be introduced to workshopping—one exercise and a complete short story will be read by classmates before being carefully revised. An exam will test your grasp of key terms and concepts.
 

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Writing Samples

The Last Spark by Devin Krukoff
This story was written for a W304 workshop and won the 2005 $10,000 Journey Prize for short fiction. Devin’s first novel, Compensation (which was completed in a Directed Studies course) was nominated for two 2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Devin completed his MFA in 2007.
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Brideship by Anna Johnston
This story was written in a W402 workshop, inspired by an assignment in Historical Fiction given in W202. A shorter version of the story won the 2006 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. Anna Johnstone presently studies in UVic’s Faculty of Law and works in the Office of the Attorney General as a researcher.
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