Spring 2027

Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop

A creative writing workshop focused on writing literary fiction, where students develop skills to conceive, execute, and revise original works.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Ricky Fayne

The course involved lots of reading. One student noted that while they initially submitted a high difficulty rating by mistake, the actual difficulty was lower, reflecting a manageable workload.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Communicate how to write literary fiction.

  • Develop the creative and technical skills necessary to conceive, execute, and revise original literary work in the relevant genre/s (fiction/poetry/playwriting/creative non-fiction).

  • Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

ENGL 207, 307, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, or graduate/professional standing. Students may not be concurrently enrolled withENGL 307, 407, 409, 410, 411, 469, 508, or 695

ENGL 408 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

RICKEY FAYNE is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Ricky Fayne

Ricky Fayne taught a supportive writing course that made the subject feel expansive rather than overwhelming. Students found the classroom safe for speaking and appreciated his clear communication of writing concepts.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.83 GPA, 92.7% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.95 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.87 GPA, 92.7% A/AB (n=41 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Ricky Fayne

The course involved lots of reading. One student noted that while they initially submitted a high difficulty rating by mistake, the actual difficulty was lower, reflecting a manageable workload.

Past student reviews · Ricky Fayne

Students praised Ricky Fayne for providing good feedback and demonstrating a genuine love for reading and writing. His approach was noted as non-pretentious, which helped deepen their own appreciation for the craft.

Topics

  • Literary fiction
  • Relationships among society, literature, and language

Skills

  • Conceive, execute, and revise original literary fiction.
  • Communicate methods for writing literary fiction.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ENGL 408 · Spring 2027

Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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