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Creative Nonfiction: Beginning Your Book (Online Course) (EGL 122 W)
Creative nonfiction is a growing field, a capacious and flexible form that can encompass personal essays, memoir, travel and food writing, biography, and historical, scientific, or literary analysis. Writers of creative nonfiction do not just report the facts. They tell true stories, borrowing techniques from fiction to make their prose dramatic and entertaining.
Whether you are in the brainstorming stage, have written a short piece you want to expand, or started a project and gotten stalled, this course will help you develop your ideas in a supportive workshop environment. We will study seminal books of creative nonfiction as structural models, from authors such as Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Colson Whitehead, Anne Lamott, and Elizabeth Gilbert. We will also talk about the business side of nonfiction book publishing—from how to get an agent’s attention to how to write a winning book proposal—so that you can make your idea into a reality. By the end of this course, you will have completed a series of writing exercises, a first chapter of your book, and an outline toward its completion.
Please note: This is an online course.
Malena Watrous
Former Stegner Fellow
Malena Watrous teaches in the Creative Writing
Program at Stanford. She has also taught creative writing
at the University of San Francisco, Johns Hopkins, and
the University of Iowa. She received an MFA from the
Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman
Capote Fellow. Her fiction has been published in such
literary journals as StoryQuarterly, TriQuarterly, and
The Massachusetts Review, and her nonfiction has
appeared on Salon.com and in Real Simple and The
Believer. She contributes regular book reviews to The
San Francisco Chronicle and is currently finishing a
novel for which she received a Michener-Copernicus
fellowship in 2006.
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Course Details
10 weeks
Jun 23 - Aug 31
3 units $750
Limit: 18
Drop by: Jun 26
Special refund deadline: June 26
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