Spring 2027

Creative Writing: Special Topics Workshop

A workshop course covering variable special topics in creative writing, where students read models and write their own exercises and full-length pieces.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sean Bishop3.9/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Communicate the advanced techniques of special topics in creative writing.

  • 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.

  • Evaluate literary works in progress, guide classroom discussion, and convey concepts of craft to undergraduate students.

  • Demonstrate sensitivity to language and style on both the artistic and technical levels.

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Prerequisites

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ENGL 207, 307, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, or graduate/professional standing

ENGL 411 used by

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Raw average: 4.67/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.77 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SEAN BISHOP is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Informal essays, long poems, novels, and novellas.
  • Genre fiction including detective, juvenile, humor, and science fiction.
  • Experimental prose and poetry.
  • Evaluating literary works in progress and conveying concepts of craft.

Skills

  • Writing original exercises and full-length creative pieces across various genres.
  • Conceiving, executing, and revising original literary work in fiction, poetry, playwriting, or creative non-fiction.
  • Communicating advanced techniques specific to rotating special topics in creative writing.
  • Demonstrating sensitivity to language and style at artistic and technical levels.

Grades

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ENGL 411 · Spring 2027

Creative Writing: Special Topics Workshop

Recorded 2026-10-29
ENGL 411 · Spring 2027

Writers in the World

Recorded 2026-10-29
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Recorded 2026-10-29

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