Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Catalog description

Provides opportunities for advanced students to enhance professional skills as authors and editors. Students will compose original works of short nonfiction and/or novel chapters, and revise them guided by feedback, ultimately producing creative pieces of sufficient quality to be submitted to appropriate publication venues and/or conferences. Significant recent trends in publishing as well as resources to locate outlets for publication will be reviewed. In addition, students will offer refined critiques to fellow writers, modeling approaches applied in the publishing world. If prerequisite courses are not met, instructor approval is required.