Summer 2014

Hello! Welcome to Writing Our Stories. This summer, we’ll be doing a lot of reading, and hopefully, even more writing. I will post some writing exercises next week. For now, here is our summer syllabus.

Summer 2014 

Non-Fiction

Ann Hood, Tomato Pie (Tin House)

Stephen King, The Ring (Tin House)

Colum McCann, The Journey Home (Tin House)

Heather O’Neill, The Secret Life of Our Trash Can (NY Times)

     Liesl Schillinger, A Formal Setting (NY Times)

Cheryl Strayed, My Uniform (Tin House)

Fiction

Katherine Heiny, Leviathan (Glimmer Train)
Phil Klay, Redeployment

Emily Ruskovich, Owl (One Story)

Recommended Reading

     Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

     E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

     Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

     Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story

     Stephen King, On Writing

     Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the    

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