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Take the Creative Writing Specialization on Coursera hereThe course: This specialization created by Wesleyan University consists of four courses, each taught by a teacher below, and covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir. It culminates in a challenging capstone project in which you'll draft, rewrite, and complete a substantial original story in the genre of your choosing.
The teachers: Salvatore Scibona was named to The New Yorker's "20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch" and is the author of 2008 National Book Award finalist "The End," the research for which he conducted while on a Fulbright Fellowship.
Amy Bloom, author of two New York Times best-sellers and three collections of short stories, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.
Brando Skyhorse is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington who won the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2011 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for his debut novel "The Madonnas of Echo Park."
Amity Gaige is the author of three novels, "O My Darling", "The Folded World", and "Schroder", which was shortlisted for The Folio Prize in 2014. To date, "Schroder" has been published in eighteen countries.