Wendy Call's Blog: What Wendy's Up To
September 15, 2014
Dive into Creative Nonfiction with Me!
I'm teaching a ten-week all online creative nonfiction class, beginning September 29, 2014. We'll explore eight key elements of successful creative nonfiction.
We’ll dissect great examples from masters of the genre – including James Baldwin, Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Walker, and David Foster Wallace, looking at the gorgeous rooms they unlock with these eight keys to fabulous nonfiction. And then you will each roll up your sleeves and get to writing, putting new skills to work in your nonfiction prose. All literary nonfiction genres, from memoir to literary journalism to lyric essay, are welcome. This online course will include short weekly assignments, with feedback from your peers and from the instructor, and culminate with each writer drafting and revising a 3,000-word nonfiction work.
Read more about the class and register at http://www.writers.com/call.html
We’ll dissect great examples from masters of the genre – including James Baldwin, Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Walker, and David Foster Wallace, looking at the gorgeous rooms they unlock with these eight keys to fabulous nonfiction. And then you will each roll up your sleeves and get to writing, putting new skills to work in your nonfiction prose. All literary nonfiction genres, from memoir to literary journalism to lyric essay, are welcome. This online course will include short weekly assignments, with feedback from your peers and from the instructor, and culminate with each writer drafting and revising a 3,000-word nonfiction work.
Read more about the class and register at http://www.writers.com/call.html
