Welcome to Wonder World!
MKCW – ‘Creative Writing: Wonder World’ Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Introduction/Beginnings of Scifi & Fantasy & Short Form
Week 3
The Fairy Tale
Week 2
World Building
Week 4
Alternative History
Week 5
The World to Come
Week 6
Publishing Your Project
Week 7
Fantasy in Live Performance
Week 8
Fantasy on Screen
Week 9
Fantasy Poetry / Special Focus
Week 10
Special Focus
Week 11
Special Focus
Week 12
Special Focus / Final Readings
Participants have the option to submit weekly writing for feedback and read their material during weekly workshop. A Final Project option is available to all at the end of the course.
Reading list
Readings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion. It is not necessary to purchase any of these titles as excerpts will be provided in advance.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan, 1865 (Wordsworth, 2018).
Nourse, Alan. The Bladerunner. McKay, 1974. (Prologue, 2013).
Mendelsohn, Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy
Wesleyan University Press, 2008.
Mathews, Richard Mathews Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination
Taylor & Francis Group, 2002
Others TBA.
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