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Creative WritingCreative writing at Luther is messy, lovely, rigorous, alive. It means being immersed in a community of working writers – your classmates and your professor. 
Visiting Poet and Memoirist Nick Flynn signs books Current course offerings in creative writing are as follows: English 212: Introduction to Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction) Luther’s flagship creative writing courses focus on the principles of delight and design uniting the genres of poetry and short fiction. In the same semester, students hone their craft by reading, workshopping, discussions, and a series of experiments, discovering not just how their work in each genre can flower but also how the genres can cross-pollinate! Students of all majors have found their voices through a variety of activities in the introductory creative writing course, including trips to Decorah’s Vesterheim Museum and the publication of class anthologies. Members of the Advanced course perform their work onstage in an annual concert, “Music in the Shape of a Pear,” staged in collaboration with Luther’s Music Department, and submit their work to literary journals.
English 213 explores a capacious and fascinating genre: creative nonfiction, now the most controversial and fastest-growing type of writing in America. If you’ve read James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, or Nick Flynn’s memoir of his alcoholic, homeless father, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, you’ve read creative nonfiction – and if you keep a diary, you’ve written it. You might write anything from personal narratives, literary journalism, and nature writing to spiritual essays or family memoirs in this course, and what you learn about writing and about yourself will definitely leave you challenged and changed. Independent Study and Senior Projects: Students who have completed the appropriate courses in creative writing, may register to do an independent writing project with a faculty member. Students who have completed the writing courses in Plan II of the major often do a senior project in poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction.
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