C R E AT I V E W R I T I N G a m m i k e ll e r Instructor, Stanford Continuing Studies Online Certificate Program in Novel Writing; Former Stegner Fellow, Stanford Ammi Keller’s teaching focuses on the intersection of mindfulness and creative writing. Her writing appears in American Short Fiction, Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and else- where. She has edited fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Soft Skull Press and has received residencies from the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. CW 17 WA 5 weeks, June 26 – July 28 1 unit, $370 Limit: 125 Refund Deadline: June 29 Grade Restriction: No letter grade Course Format: Flex Online CW 17 WB 5 weeks, July 31 – September 1 1 unit, $370 Limit: 125 Refund Deadline: August 3 Grade Restriction: No letter grade Course Format: Flex Online Section WA and Section WB of “Establishing a Creative Writing Practice” have the same objective—to foster a daily practice—but use different prompts and creativity-related links. Students may register for Section WA or Section WB, or for both. The prompts are also different from those in Section WA and WB offered in the Winter Quarter. Reading as a Writer: A One-Week Intensive O ne of the best ways to become a skilled writer is to become a skilled reader. In this immersion seminar, you will learn to read in a way you were probably never taught in literature courses—not as a critic but as a craftsperson, an apprentice in the guild. You will learn how to X-ray any piece of writing, from its design to its prose, so that you can make its strategies your own. Examining contemporary masters like Alice Munro, Joan Didion, and George Saunders, you will learn, for example, what makes a particular physical description effective, how to advance plot with dialogue, and how to subtly develop a piece’s insight. Since the aim of skilled reading is skilled writing, you will try out techniques in short exercises, but we will not critique manuscripts. We will discuss traditional and experimental approaches to fiction and creative nonfic- tion. And we will look at design elements (like plot, point of view, and image systems) and prose elements (patterns that help produce narrative voice, style, and tone). Other authors we will consider include James Baldwin, Ocean Vuong, Louise Erdrich, Ted Chiang, Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Pico Iyer, Cheryl Strayed, Ross Gay, Colum McCann, Ha Jin, Tobias Wolff, and Jhumpa Lahiri. jona h W i ll i h nga nz Director, Stanford Storytelling Project; Co-Founder, LifeWorks Program for Integrative Learning; Bruce Braden Lecturer of Narrative Studies, Stanford Jonah Willihnganz has taught courses in writing and literature at Stanford since 2002. He has published fiction, essays, and literary criticism, and his research focuses on how stories and storytelling can heal the mind. He received a PhD in English from Brown. CW 170 Monday – Friday, July 17 – July 21 12:30 – 5:30 pm (PT) 2 units, $630 Limit: 22 Refund Deadline: July 10 Course Format: On-campus 47 R EGIS T R AT IO N F O R AL L C O UR S ES B EGINS ON MONDAY, MAY 22, AT 8:30 A M (P T ) R EGIS T ER O NL INE AT C O NT INUINGSTU DIES.STA NFORD.EDU