Creative Writing

The writing department at Bethesda is pleased to offer our students a unique opportunity to study writing as an art and a craft.  Our creative writing classes focus primarily on the study of writing and reading contemporary literary fiction.  Students will be taught how to "build" fiction by first focusing on how to develop ideas for their stories.  They will then move through the process of establishing a strong point of view, creating compelling characters, as well as plots that involve both external conflicts and internal conflicts.  Students will also learn about the business of writing, and at the clumination of our program, students will submit a story for publication in a literary journal of their choosing.