Non-Fiction Workshop

Catalog description

A workshop course focusing on the craft of story-telling in non-fiction prose. Workshop will be supplemented with lectures and assignments focusing on technique and by substantial readings of 20th century writers who put literary non-fiction on the map - from Joseph Mitchell, John McPhee, and Rachel Carson to writers as diverse as Barry Lopez, William Least Heat-Moon, and Annie Dillard. Each student will be expected to complete short assignments as well as one substantial piece of writing