Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Catalog description

This class will focus on generating new creative nonfiction and considering the craft decisions that build it. We’ll read published work that helps us hone our skills, and you’ll be expected to present on contemporary writing, but the bulk of this course will be spent giving and receiving feedback on our own work. Formal range is encouraged: personal essay, memoir, reportage, profile, travel, hybrid, graphic, collage, braid, lyric, etc. are welcome. No matter the form your pieces take, they will be received in a supportive environment that views writing as a process and feedback as a way to help move your work closer to its truest self. Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Prerequisites & Notes First-year students require permission of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit if taught by two different professors.