This fall, University of West Florida (UWF) is offering a creative writing class at the Emerald Coast Campus in Fort Walton Beach. Writers and students interested in exploring narrative fiction should enroll now for this course. Advanced Creative Writing, a workshop course in narrative fiction, taught by Diana Jernigan, that helps creative writers explore fiction through developing plot, characters, setting, point of view and other elements of fiction, with an eye toward publication, starts Aug. 22, Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m., 1170 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Fort Walton Beach. The university offers tuition waivers for senior citizens in some cases. Visit the website uwf.edu/offices/emerald-coast or contact Andrea Rymer at (850) 863.6569 or arymer@uwf.edu.