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Fiction at Stonecoast
In an era when many graduate programs are accused of turning out cookie-cutter graduates who have been taught to write the "workshop story," Stonecoast grounds its fiction curriculum in the three essential principles of craft, tradition, and exploration while encouraging each writer's individual voice, no matter what the form, style, or sub-genre. The work of Stonecoast's award-winning fiction faculty represents an unusual range of styles of fiction, from the strongly plotted to the lyrically experimental, the classic to the quirky, the comic to the erotic, the emotionally moving to the politically activist—and many intersections and overlappings in between. The Stonecoast fiction curriculum emphasizes a deep knowledge of the techniques that have shaped narrative fiction from its beginnings, enriched by a wide familiarity with the fiction of many eras and cultures and a sense of the writer's responsibilities towards the present. It is our belief that such solid foundations in turn allow students to make the bold, imaginative, wise aesthetic choices necessary to develop a truly original literary voice. Fiction at Stonecoast is uniquely enriched by proximity with one of the nation's only graduate programs in popular fiction writing. Lively conversations about the interface between literary and popular fiction lead to increased awareness of the unique roles of literary fiction, as well as fostering questions of audience and a continual exercise of the imaginative possibilities of multiple genres of literature. Stonecoast fiction faculty bring to their students a wide range of experience: university teaching, leadership roles in international literary organizations, social justice work, scholarship in literary theory, editing presses and magazines, and making a living as self-supporting authors (with attendant high levels of expertise in the relevant strategies, from marketing and publicity to agents and book contracts.) Fiction writers of all these different backgrounds come together during the Stonecoast residencies to create a community based on mutual enjoyment and respect. To a person, our fiction faculty are not only well-published authors, but also generous and supportive teachers, mentors, and colleagues. Their wisdom and encouragement help to foster true literary engagment among Stonecoast students. Fiction students at Stonecoast also seem to form an unusually warm and supportive network, with many small groups springing up and creating lasting literary friendships. Please explore the related links in the righthand column to learn more about Fiction at Stonecoast. |
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