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Online Creative Nonfiction Writing Courses
Enroll in a Writers.com online creative nonfiction writing course, and discover nonfiction as powerful literature.
Creative nonfiction includes our memoir and personal essay writing courses as its two main subgenres.
You'll get weekly instructor feedback on your work, ongoing collaboration with other creative nonfiction writers, and a supportive course structure that will help you deepen and grow as an essayist.
Learn from published authors who have spent decades perfecting their craft, and are dedicated to supporting you and your work. Don't miss out: find the online personal essay writing class for you today!
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Upcoming Online Creative Nonfiction Writing Courses
May courses, anatomy of a premise line: how to use story and premise development for writing success, with jeff lyons.
The premise line is the only reliable tool that can tell you, BEFORE you start writing, whether or not your story will “work.” In this class participants will learn how to master the process of premise line development—the essential first step in any book or screenplay’s development process.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Stage and Broadcast
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Six Flash Essays in Six Weeks
With rudri patel.
Tell the stories of your life in 1,000 words or less in this generative flash essays workshop.
Creative Nonfiction , Personal Essay
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Telling the Stories Your Body Holds: Writing and Shaping Strong Personal Essays
With sarah herrington.
Where do essays come from? In this course, they come from the body. Learn how to start—and finish—powerful essays that begin inside the self.
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It Starts with Play: Get (Back) into Writing
With janée baugher.
Harness the joy of creativity in this inspiration-focused class, where we'll uncover new ideas for writing projects and draft loads of new material.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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Shape Your Stories: Write Five Styles of the Personal Essay
With susan pohlman.
Craft powerful nonfiction essays! By exploring five exciting essay forms, you'll learn to bring the stories of your life alive on the page.
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June Courses
Finding confidence in the braided essay: a craft and empowerment workshop for literary nonfiction, with margo steines.
Weaving your story with facts and research can help you craft a stronger essay. Tell your story with confidence in this empowering essay writing course.
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Ordinary to Extraordinary: Turning Everyday Experiences into Poetry
With tina barry.
No experience is too small or mundane to serve as a foundation for extraordinary poetry and short fiction.
Creative Nonfiction , Personal Essay , Poetry
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The Body and Soul of Your Memoir: Shape, Focus, and Write Your Memoir
With caryn mirriam-goldberg.
Unearth your memoir's soul (its main focus and calling) and body (its organization and structure) as you write toward a completed draft.
Creative Nonfiction , Memoir
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The Literary Essay
With jonathan j.g. mcclure.
Explore the literary essay - from the conventional to the experimental, the journalistic to essays in verse - while writing and workshopping your own.
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Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Telling True Stories
With nicole hardy.
How do you tell your stories beautifully and authentically? Learn the fundamentals of creative nonfiction with Nicole Hardy.
Creative Nonfiction , Memoir , Personal Essay
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Finding Inspiration in Dreams
With amy bonnaffons.
Our dreams are fertile fields of inspiration, meaning, and creativity. Learn how to use your dreams as doorways to future writing.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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Observing What’s Vivid in Prose and Poetry
With marc olmsted.
Learn how to spotlight beauty through fresh, vivid, and surprising language, in this four week mindfulness writing course.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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Story Lab: The Story-Subplot Connection
Subplots are key to maintaining narrative pace and tension in a story. Drive your story forward with this deep dive into the elements of good storytelling.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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Stringing the Beads: Craft Your Personal Essay
With joanna penn cooper.
Harness the freedom of the personal essay in this 4 week course, where we'll shape our ideas, thoughts, and obsessions into compelling nonfiction pieces.
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July Courses
Beginner’s mind: a mindful approach to personal essays, with susan barr-toman.
Write true and meaningful personal essays with the tools of mindfulness. We'll discover new insights in our work as we center ourselves, confront our inner critics, and write mindfully.
Creative Nonfiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Personal Essay
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Show and Tell: How to Write Captivating Memoir and Nonfiction
With brad wetzler.
Your true story of healing or transformation can captivate and empower your readers. Learn how to balance showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling the broader themes for readers to apply in their own lives.
Creative Nonfiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Personal Essay
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Writing Autobiographical Fiction
With jack smith.
Learn to depart from "what really happened," and write compelling fiction from your own life experiences.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Short Story
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Writing Our Grief: How to Channel Loss into Creative Expression
Writing about grief is a powerful healing tool. Turn pain into power in this personal essay course, with instructor Rudri Patel.
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Writing the Memoir-in-Essays
Learn how to tell your story through the memoir-in-essays, a form that allows writers to interweave the facts of their lives in interesting and evocative ways.
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The Lyric Essay: Invitation to Play
With elizabeth winder.
Create dynamic, genre-bending works of musical prose in this playful and exploratory lyric essay workshop.
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August Courses
Comics for people who can’t draw, with aubrey hirsch.
Can't draw? No problem! In this workshop, learn how to tell complete stories in publication-ready comics, no matter your artistic background.
Lifestyle and Wellness , Personal Essay , Short Story
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Writing Chronic Illness
Creative nonfiction offers a container for the sharing and exploration of illness. Tell the story of your body in this healing-oriented workshop.
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Rapid Story Development: A Master Plan for Building Stories That Work
In this 10 week story writing class, Jeff Lyons pairs the Enneagram with story development techniques to revolutionize your writing practice.
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Where the Diary Ends and the Essay Begins
With shelby hinte.
Start a diary practice and turn it into a mode of writing personal essays in this generative journaling workshop.
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September Courses
A writerly life: develop a writing routine that works for you.
What does a writer's life look like? Build a productive writing habit in this course for writers of all backgrounds.
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Creative Nonfiction and the Personal Essay
With gretchen clark.
Gretchen Clark pick axes her way into the volcanic marriage of real life and fiction. Weekly writing with incisive feedback.
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Writing with Consistency and Courage
With tamara dean.
What makes a successful writer? It's not talent, craft, or even the right connections—it's consistency and courage.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Live Workshop , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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October Courses
Plumbing the past: turning life experience into poetry, flash and creative non-fiction.
Dig deep into personal ritual while studying narrative poets, short fiction and non-fiction authors, and food writers.
Creative Nonfiction , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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Unscheduled Courses
These online writing classes don’t currently have a next session on our calendar, but will soon. If you see a course you’re interested in, use the “I’m Interested” button to let us know, and we’ll follow up with you when the course is on our calendar next.
Want to reach us or our instructors with questions about our online writing courses? Contact us at [email protected] , or visit the contact form .
(Live Workshop) Dream Writing
With zining mok.
How can writers harness the power of dreams? Let your slumber supercharge your creativity in this three hour dream writing workshop.
Creative Nonfiction , Live Workshop , Memoir , Personal Essay
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(Live Workshop) Writing Beginnings and Endings
With sarah aronson.
How do you write a story that's compelling to start and satisfying to finish? Sarah Aronson explains in this comprehensive one-day workshop.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Live Workshop , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Short Story
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*Private Class | Embodied Writing: Improve Your Writing with Full-Body Creativity
With rosemary tantra bensko.
Have a grand time with specific physical exercises that honor your health, generate imaginative ideas, explore deeply and make your creative writing entertaining.
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*Private Class | Embodied Writing: Somatic Practices to Improve Your Work
*private class | finding confidence in the braided essay: a craft and empowerment workshop for literary nonfiction, *private class | food writing: meals and manuscripts, with jennifer billock.
Do you love cookbooks, cooking, or reading anything about food? This food writing course is for you. With award winning writer Jennifer Billock.
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*Private Class | From Pitch to Publication: Writing Narrative Journalism
Explore literary journalism as a powerful means to share fascinating characters, stories, and perspectives. Learn all you need to start pitching, landing, and writing reported essays and features.
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*Private Class | Telling the Stories Your Body Holds: Writing and Shaping Strong Personal Essays
*private class | the literary essay, *private class | using bullet journaling to achieve writing goals.
Looking to keep your writing goals organized? Make it happen in our bullet journaling course. Learn the art of the BuJo with Rudri Patel!
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*Private Class | Write Your World: Express Your Creativity through Article Writing, Blogging, and Essays
Want to write your world, your way? Join us for this six-week program on article writing, blogging, and essays.
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*Private Class | Writing Our Grief: How to Channel Loss into Creative Expression
*private class | writing with tarot, with sandra novack.
Jump-start your creative juices, and explore a world of divination, symbolism, and imagery right at your fingertips: learn short story and novel writing through Tarot.
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Ambient Grief: Writing the Alteration
With jacinda townsend.
How do we write about moments of painful transition, or grief that the world doesn't recognize as grief? Turn ambient pain into powerful words in this transformational personal essay workshop.
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Block Buster: Turbocharge Your Creativity with Breakneck Writing
Banish writer's block, unearth fresh ideas, and sharpen your storytelling ability with the practice of fast, timed writing.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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Boost Your Imagination and Reap the Literary Rewards
With giulietta nardone.
It happens to all of us: life gets in the way and our creativity falters. Get back on track with this four-week creativity boosting class!
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Branches of Creative Nonfiction
With tess fahlgren.
What are the different types of creative nonfiction? From the personal essay to the hermit crab, learn the ropes of CNF in this 8 week class.
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But What Is Your Story Really About? Finding the Core of Your Short Memoir, Story, or Personal Essay
Take a four-week writing adventure deep into the core of your story, to find the true theme of your personal essay, short story, or short memoir.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Personal Essay , Short Story
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Character Transformation Workshop: How to Write Stories that Emotionally Resonate
Learn how to write emotionally resonant journeys that stick with the reader, using the power of character transformation.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Novel , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction
With anya achtenberg.
Turn your experience into fiction, autobiography, or creative memoir. Bring forward stories with a powerful truth at their core. Instructor Anya Achtenberg.
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Craft Your Story: Short Fiction and Memoir Live Workshops
With margo perin.
Get tailored advice and inspiration for your fiction or nonfiction stories, in this weekly live workshop with award-winning instructor Margo Perin.
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Crafting the Poetry Novel: Advanced Workshop
With kelly bingham.
Want to make headway on your poetry novel? This workshop offers the structure and resources to get it done, with instructor Kelly Bingham.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Poetry
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Creating Narrative in Comics
Art and storytelling have a rich relationship to one another. Explore that relationship in this class on writing narrative comics. Open to all artistic skill levels!
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Personal Essay , Short Story
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Creating the Visual Journal
With lissa jensen.
Go beyond narrow definitions of “journaling" to include visual images and let writing give what is seen a new voice. Surprise yourself.
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Creative Writing & Storytelling Techniques For Business Professionals
Good writing helps business connect deeply with the clients they're hoping to work with. Learn how to hone the power of story in your professional career.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness
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Deepening and Organizing Our Stories: Memoir/Creative Nonfiction and Autobiographical Fiction
For writers of memoir, creative nonfiction and fiction, with some experience. Particularly helpful to writers in the midst of a longer work.
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Embodied Writing: Improve Your Writing with Full-Body Creativity
Embodied writing: somatic practices to improve your work, even smaller: adventures in short-form writing.
Course full. Contact us to join waitlist.
Less is more in this bite-sized writing class, where you'll learn how to tell complete stories under the tightest word counts.
Fiction , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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Find Your Brave: Publishing As An Act Of Courage
In this fun, transformative four-week program, get tips and techniques to bring out your courage to publish a story in print or online.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Personal Essay , Short Story
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Finding the Real Story: Essential Elements of Story in Fiction and Memoir
Address the larger issues of writing story through a look at the essential elements of narrative in fiction and memoir.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Short Story
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Food Writing: Food-Focused Memoir
The food we eat and enjoy tells volumes about our lives and experiences. Write it all down in this food memoir course, with Jennifer Billock.
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Food Writing: Meals And Manuscripts
From memory: writing fiction or memoir from lived experience, with chin-sun lee.
In this class, you'll use a nearly infinite resource—your own memory—to craft compelling fiction or nonfiction stories.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction Writing fiction and nonfiction from memory course](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/memory-writing-course-384x250.jpg)
From Pitch to Publication: Writing Narrative Journalism
From the source: journaling for self-knowledge and creativity.
Journal to discover yourself, find a wellspring of creativity, and produce publication-ready pieces.
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Fundamentals of Travel Writing
Take to the skies in this online travel writing course. We'll discuss the market, different types of travel writing, and pitching your piece!
![great courses writing creative nonfiction travel writing course](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/travel_writing_course-scaled-e1626283441742-384x250.jpg)
Get Back to That Book
With donna levin.
For any number of reasons, the book we want to write gets waylaid. Get back to it in this motivational two part workshop.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Novel
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Get Clear on Your Story and Voice
With nadia colburn.
What is your story about? What is your voice? Whether you write poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, hone your writing in this 3 hour workshop.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction get clear on your story writing class](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/get_clear_on_your_story-e1643735810393-384x250.jpg)
Get It Done: Create the Scaffolding to Start (and Finish) a Writing Project
With eman quotah.
Get your butt in the chair, your mind roaming freely, and your creative juices flowing in this motivational, all-genres writing class.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Live Workshop , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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Get Your Book Done Intensive! 4 Weeks to Measurable Progress
The summer is the best time to get the ball rolling on your book. Join us if you really want to get your book into the world.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction write your book class](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/write_your_book-e1606182988632-384x250.jpg)
Get Your Book Noticed: Writing Loglines That Sell
Your logline helps you query agents, market your book, and figure out the story itself. Hone your logline and set your book up for success in this Zoom workshop.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction Log line writing course](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/log-line-writing-course-384x250.jpg)
How to Firm Up the “Mushy Middle” of Any Story
Ensure a strong middle throughline for any story. Say goodbye to the "mushy middle," and hello to stories that work.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Short Story , Stage and Broadcast
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How to Pitch
With rachel krantz.
Learn the ins and outs of pitching your work to print and online publications from Rachel Krantz, a full-time writer and formerly the Senior Feature Editor at Bustle.
Creative Nonfiction , Live Workshop , Personal Essay
![great courses writing creative nonfiction how to pitch writing course](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/how_to_pitch_writing_workshop-e1666386933798-384x250.jpg)
How To Start A Blog
With jessica festa.
Create your blog, brand it, create engaging content and successfully promote posts. Taught by journalist, writer and photographer Jessica Festa.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction Jessica Festa - Starting A Blog](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/JFintroU-384x250.jpg)
How To Start A Blog, Grow An Audience & Make Money
When planned right, a blog allows you to share your passion and make money in the process. Learn how to start a blog in this one-day webinar.
Creative Nonfiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Live Workshop , Personal Essay
![great courses writing creative nonfiction How To Build A Blog, Grow An Audience & Make Money](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/intro-to-blogging-webinar-e1632179966331-384x250.jpg)
How To Turn Your Blog Into A Career
From branding to search engine optimization and advertising, this course puts bloggers on the path to earning an income through their blog.
Humor Is The New Black!
Ready to add a splash of fun to your writing life? Join us for a four-week humor writing class. We’ll read. We’ll laugh. We’ll write. We’ll experiment.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction laughing from Imgarcade.com](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/audience-laughing-movie-theater-384x250.jpg)
I’ve Drunk Your Poisoned Nectar: Writing with the Goddess
With shankar narayan.
Dig deep into the rich mythology of South Asian goddesses to find new inspiration for your work in this generative, open-genre writing class.
![great courses writing creative nonfiction goddess writing course](https://writers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/goddess-creative-writing-course-e1660141760768-384x250.jpg)
In Bloom: Nature Writing Workshop
With dana de greff.
Only 3 seats left!
Want to write about nature like Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, or Annie Dillard? Join us for this six-week nature writing course.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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In Brief: Explorations in Short Story Forms
Explore the intricate world of short prose forms. Experiment with story forms from one-syllable micros to full-length short stories, and complete six new story drafts.
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In Your Own Words: Transforming Life Into Memoir and Fiction
Learn how to draw inspiration and material from your life experiences or those of people you know, or want to know, to craft compelling, publishable memoirs, personal essays, autobiographical novels and short stories, and/or narrative poetry.
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Let It Rip: The Art of Writing Fiery Prose
You'll write prose that gets folks so hot and bothered they won't be able to put it down, even if it isn't about sex.
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Let’s Get Personal: The Art and Craft of the Personal Essay
Draw inspiration and material from your life experiences or “real life” people you know to craft compelling, publishable personal essays. With author Margo Perin.
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Make Your Prose Sing
With leslie lawrence.
Enrich your prose with techniques from poetry. Bring paper and pens; leave with a better ear and lots of ideas about how to make your prose sing.
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Next-Level Creative Nonfiction: Elevating Essays, Memoir, Travel Writing & Literary Journalism
With wendy call.
Elevate your memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, & lyric and personal essays.
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No More Excuses! Four Weeks to Finish and Submit Your Personal Essay or Short Memoir
Join us for this insightful four-week “get the writing done” program, give and receive thoughtful comments from your fellow writers and the instructor, and enjoy heaps of encouragement and writing wisdom along the way.
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Oral Storytelling Techniques for Writing Flash Nonfiction
With corey rosen.
In this class, you'll harness the power of oral storytelling to craft exceptional pieces of written nonfiction.
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Overcome Writing Anxiety: Boost Your Storytelling Confidence in Four Short Weeks!
"Who are you to want to write?" Someone great, that's who! Politely ask Mr. or Ms. Fear to step aside while you sign up for this fun, freeing and functional adventure.
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Scene Study: Strengthen Your Writing with Compelling Scenes
Great stories are constructed with great scenes. Immerse your reader in your stories by learning the ropes of scene development.
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Secrets & Confessions: Writing Deeply Personal Nonfiction
In this fully anonymous class, we will write and share the secrets we hold closest to our chests, and turn those secrets into compelling creative nonfiction.
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Style and Sense: Bring Your Writing to Life
With john gottberg anderson.
How do we transport our readers to vivid worlds? In this course, learn the skills that evoke the senses and bring your writing to life.
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Suspense Sells! Power Up Your Writing With Conflict, Tension and Emotion
Inject suspense into your stories to keep readers turning pages. For writers of all kinds of fiction: thrillers, mysteries, romance, humor, literary and memoir. A four week class with Giulietta Nardone.
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Tales From The Memory Palace: 6 to 250 Word Memoirs
If you want to be an in demand storyteller in the digital age, you need to get in, get out and get going. In this "short" four-week memoir writing adventure, you'll learn to scope out, swoop down and snatch up important memories from your life then speed write them into miniature masterpieces.
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Techwashed!: Writing with AI, Data, and Surveillance
Raise a mirror against society's relationship to technology in this two part workshop series where we will learn how to write about tech.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Live Workshop , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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Telling Your Food Story
With hannah howard.
Let's write at the kitchen table together, as we explore using food as a lens to tell our stories.
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The Chronology of Mind: From Journal to Poem or Prose
With barbara henning.
Gather material through writing and experimenting with journaling, researching and taking notes to develop into poems or prose works.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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The Heart Remembers: Writing About Loss
With charlotte maya.
How can we organize grief and loss into language? Honor your feelings and write moving essays in this heart-centered creative nonfiction class.
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The Lyric Essay
Explore non-traditional and imaginative ways to tell your stories with this ten-week writing course online. Creative nonfiction teacher Gretchen Clark provides detailed feedback on weekly writing assignments that emphasize creative freedom.
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The Magic of Flash Nonfiction
Tell your stories quickly and stylishly in this short form creative nonfiction workshop, where you'll come away honing the magic of flash nonfiction.
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The Soundtrack of Your Life: Writing About Music, Memories and Mix Tapes
In a song inspired class, write several essays about the music that has moved you through life: the emotions, the relationships, the events, the outcomes.
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The Surprising Sentence: Honing Your Prose Style
With jessie roy.
Great sentences stack up into great stories. Learn how to hone your style and voice at the most basic unit of writing, the sentence, in this workshop.
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The Wandering Heart: Tales of Connection
Wander through the rooms of your own life to discover stories of deep connection, reconnection or loss of connection and fashion your findings into stories suitable for blog posts, essays, short memoirs, short plays, scenes in screenplays, or chapters of novels.
Creative Nonfiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir
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Tiny and True: Creating Flash Essays with Mindfulness
How do you tell the full truth in under 1,000 words? Learn the art of flash essays and write nuggets of wisdom in this tiny essay class.
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Toying with the Truth: Writing the Personal Essay
Experiment with creative nonfiction forms and find the best way to tell your personal stories. Write a short piece each week, and choose one draft to polish.
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Using Bullet Journaling to Achieve Writing Goals
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Poetry
Using Your Poetry Skills to Write Memoir
With freesia mckee.
How do poets tell their stories in prose? Take the leap from poetry to memoir in this hybrid writing workshop.
Creative Nonfiction , Live Workshop , Memoir , Poetry
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Word Flashes & Eye Snapshots: Sketching Your Life Awake
For any writer wanting to root writing in vision and vision in the body: for poetry, fiction, essay, memoir & pleasure.
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Write from the Untamed Mind: Find Your Voice
With susan vespoli.
Join Susan in two writing circles each week: intimate spaces for writers to free-write together, saying yes to whatever shows up, followed by group read-arounds. These writing sessions are spontaneous, intimate, freeing, and transformative.
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Write into Mystery: Writing Flash Memoir on Wonder and the Unexplained
We often encounter wonder, mystery, and the unexplained in our everyday lives. Turn those experiences into flash essays in this community-centered course.
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Write Your Memoir in 12 Weeks
With blaise allysen kearsley.
Writing a full memoir takes energy, momentum, and moral support. Find all three in this memoir writing intensive.
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Write Your World: Express Your Creativity through Article Writing, Blogging, and Essays
Writing about family.
Family is complicated, and so is writing about it. Navigate the complexities of writing about real relationships in this generative essay class.
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Writing Circle Workshop: Writing for Happiness, Healing, and Health (Monday/Friday)
Expressive writing can be a powerful elixir for what ails you. Learn and practice tools for writing expressively, including two virtual writing circles each week, turn raw writing into poetry or prose, and come away with a better understanding of how writing can lead toward wellness.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
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Writing Circle Workshop: Writing for Happiness, Healing, and Health (Tuesday/Saturday)
Writing place in creative nonfiction.
In Creative Nonfiction, place is a character in itself. Deeply explore a narrative and a place of your choosing, and make weekly progress on your essay or memoir.
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Writing the (Modern) Love Essay
With paz pardo.
How do you distill the complexity of (modern) love into language? Learn how in this workshop, where you'll transform your lived experience of romance into an essay.
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Writing the Body: A Nonfiction Craft Seminar
The weird and wild body is a rich site of exploration in creative nonfiction. Explore the questions, stories, and lessons your body holds in this seminar with Margo Steines.
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Write your true story & join CNF’s growing writing community
Creative Nonfiction provides learning opportunities to help you connect with the broader creative nonfiction community year-round. From intensive online courses to hour-long webinars, CNF offers a variety of ways you can learn new skills, generate new writing, stay focused, and create your best work.
Online Classes
Take a deep dive
Since 2011, Creative Nonfiction’s online courses have helped thousands of writers from all over the world tell their stories better.
Our 5- and 10-week courses offer firm deadlines, a flexible schedule that fits your needs, and feedback to help you keep writing and improving your work. Terms start quarterly, and sections are capped at 14 to help foster community and connection.
Whether you’re just starting out or are looking for an advanced course to help you refine and polish your work, there’s something in our schedule for you.
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Self-Guided Online Courses
Stay motivated & inspired while you work at your own pace
Self-guided classes enable you to work on your writing while gaining valuable knowledge, skills, and resources. There are no due dates, no cap on enrollment, and no instructor, but you can engage with other writers and give and receive feedback on writing posted in the classroom.
New lessons open weekly. After the course closes at the end of the final week, you will receive a zip file that contains all the course content and work you developed during the course. You’ll also continue to be a member of our private Wet Ink Creative Nonfiction Writing Classes Community Page, where you can continue to share writing and calls for submissions, recommend books, and stay connected with other writers.
Self-guided classes are open to writers at all levels, and new classes are announced regularly. Late registration is often available; regardless of when you enroll, please note that the class closes on the date indicated on our website.
Weekly presentations on the art, craft, and business of writing true stories
Webinars are a convenient and affordable way to focus on practical writing, revision, and publishing skills.
Our professional instructors offer inspiration, suggestions for further reading, and concrete, actionable tips that can help you tackle new projects or revisit works in progress with a fresh eye. Programs range from the basics to the book proposal, offering choices for writers at all levels of experience.
Join a webinar in real time and take part in the conversation. Afterward, the recording will be shared as a resource you can return to again and again.
Make a yearlong commitment to your craft
Whether you’re new to the genre or you’re looking to add more rigor and accountability to your writing practice, these thoughtful progressions of courses will help you learn (or revisit) the fundamentals of the genre, develop your craft, enrich your knowledge, and sharpen your skills.
By the end of the year, you’ll have mastered the basics of the personal essay or memoir, written and revised new work, and grown significantly as a writer.
Pathways begin every January.
In-Person Writing Workshops
Take your writing to the next level with hands-on instruction and inspiration at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation’s office, located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Each workshop, whether five weeks or a few hours long, will teach you long-lasting strategies and skills to apply to your personal and professional writing practices.
We are not hosting in-person writing workshops at this time.
What is Creative Nonfiction?
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Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.
Whether you're looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, these dynamic 24 lectures are a chance for you to explore the entire process of writing creative nonfiction, from brainstorming for the perfect idea to getting your final product noticed by literary agents and publishers.
Filled with helpful tips and techniques, memorable examples from well-known writers, and engaging exercises, it's a learning experience that proves that - with the right instructor - writing creative nonfiction can be mastered, practiced, and enjoyed by anyone with a desire to share his or her personal story. Professor Mazzeo guides you through
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Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles. Whether you're looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, these dynamic 24 lectures are a chance for you to explore the entire process of writing creative nonfiction, from brainstorming for the perfect idea to getting your final product noticed by literary agents and publishers. Filled with helpful tips and techniques, memorable examples from well-known writers, and engaging exercises, it's a learning experience that proves that - with the right instructor - writing creative nonfiction can be mastered, practiced, and enjoyed by anyone with a desire to share his or her personal story. Professor Mazzeo guides you through the fundamental concepts such as narrative arcs, captivating beginnings, sentence variation, perspective, characterization, dialogue, and metaphor; each stage of writing creative nonfiction, from researching your topic to revising your first draft; and the publishing process, from finding an agent to writing a successful book proposal. You'll come away with the knowledge, tools, and, most important, inspiration you need to discover your stories and finally start telling them the right way.
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Introduction
Creative nonfiction is a broad term and encompasses many different forms of writing. This resource focuses on the three basic forms of creative nonfiction: the personal essay, the memoir essay, and the literary journalism essay. A short section on the lyric essay is also discussed.
The Personal Essay
The personal essay is commonly taught in first-year composition courses because students find it relatively easy to pick a topic that interests them, and to follow their associative train of thoughts, with the freedom to digress and circle back.
The point to having students write personal essays is to help them become better writers, since part of becoming a better writer is the ability to express personal experiences, thoughts and opinions. Since academic writing may not allow for personal experiences and opinions, writing the personal essay is a good way to allow students further practice in writing.
The goal of the personal essay is to convey personal experiences in a convincing way to the reader, and in this way is related to rhetoric and composition, which is also persuasive. A good way to explain a personal essay assignment to a more goal-oriented student is simply to ask them to try to persuade the reader about the significance of a particular event.
Most high-school and first-year college students have plenty of experiences to draw from, and they are convinced about the importance of certain events over others in their lives. Often, students find their strongest conviction in the process of writing, and the personal essay is a good way to get students to start exploring these possibilities in writing.
A personal essay assignment can work well as a prelude to a research paper, because personal essays will help students understand their own convictions better, and will help prepare them to choose research topics that interest them.
An Example and Discussion of a Personal Essay
The following excerpt from Wole Soyinka's (Nigerian Nobel Laureate) Why Do I Fast? is an example of a personal essay. What follows is a short discussion of Soyinka's essay.
Soyinka begins with a question that fascinates him. He doesn’t feel required to immediately answer the question in the second paragraph. Rather, he takes time to consider his own inclination to believe that there is a connection between fasting and sensuality.
Soyinka follows the flowing associative arc of his thoughts, and he goes on to write about sunsets, and quotes from a poem that he wrote in his cell. The essay ends, not on a restatement of his thesis, but on yet another question that arises:
This question remains unanswered. Soyinka is not interested in even attempting to answer it. The personal essay doesn’t necessarily seek to make sense out of life experiences; rather, personal essays tend to let go of that sense-making impulse to do something else, like nose around a bit in the wondering, uncertain space that lies between experience and the need to organize it in a logical manner.
However informal the personal essay may seem, it’s important to keep in mind that, as Dinty W. Moore says in The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction , “the essay should always be motivated by the author’s genuine interest in wrestling with complex questions.”
Generating Ideas for Personal Essays
In The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction , Moore goes on to explain an effective way to help students generate ideas for personal essays:
“Think about ten things you care about deeply: the environment, children in poverty, Alzheimer’s research (because your grandfather is a victim), hip-hop music, Saturday afternoon football games. Make your own list of ten important subjects, and then narrow the larger subject down to specific subjects you might write about. The environment? How about that bird sanctuary out on Township Line Road that might be torn down to make room for a megastore?..."
"...What is it like to be the food service worker who puts mustard on two thousand hot dogs every Saturday afternoon? Don’t just wonder about it - talk to the mustard spreader, spend an afternoon hanging out behind the counter, spread some mustard yourself. Transform your list of ten things into a longer list of possible story ideas. Don’t worry for now about whether these ideas would take a great amount of research, or might require special permission or access. Just write down a master list of possible stories related to your ideas and passions. Keep the list. You may use it later.”
It is this flexibility of form in the personal essay that makes it easy for students who are majoring in engineering, nutrition, graphic design, finance, management, etc. to adapt, learn and practice. The essay can be a more worldly form of writing than poetry or fiction, so students from various backgrounds, majors, jobs and cultures can express interesting and powerful thoughts and feelings in them.
The essay is more worldly than poetry and fiction in another sense: it allows for more of the world and its languages, its arts and food, its sport and business, its travel and politics, its sciences and entertainment, to be present, valid and important.
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No one knows what ‘creative nonfiction’ is. That’s what makes it great.
In the first paragraph of “ The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting ,” Lee Gutkind, the “Godfather” of the creative-nonfiction genre (a title used once to describe him in Vanity Fair in 1997 and since taken up repeatedly over the years, mostly by Gutkind himself, including in the bio on this book jacket), begins with a question he often receives: “‘What is creative nonfiction?’ Or, in some cases, ‘What the hell is creative nonfiction?’”
It’s a fitting sentiment for the genre, and for its longtime champion. This term, which others forgo in favor of “literary nonfiction” or “narrative nonfiction,” or simply “the essay,” as Gutkind writes, is a blanket that seeks to cover works from Joan Didion’s stylized journalistic chronicles of the ’60s to Mary Karr and the memoir boom of the ’90s to Annie Dillard’s nature writing, and everything in between that isn’t made up but also probably wouldn’t run in the newspaper. To practice or teach creative nonfiction (or whatever else you might want to call it) has been to operate from a defensive position. As Gutkind shows, this is a genre whose inception and growth were met with uncertainty, skepticism and in many cases disdain.
In trying to name, categorize, legitimize creative nonfiction, it’s hard not to feel that you’re being defined by what you are failing to do — it’s not creative in the eyes of fiction writers, or rigorously factual in the eyes of journalists, or properly literary in the eyes of academics. Here, Gutkind attempts to narrate the history of the genre, and that story is inevitably one of contestation and conflict — about what “creative nonfiction” even is, above all else, and just how “creative” writers can be before they’re no longer writing nonfiction. Those are familiar debates for some of us, and they haven’t stopped. I was in graduate school more than a decade ago, at one of the creative-nonfiction programs that Gutkind describes, and I was constantly getting into “Literary Fist-Fights,” though I imagine most of the people around me wanted to punch me for real.
Gutkind has been out there on those self-drawn front lines since the early ’70s. He’s a writer of numerous creative-nonfiction books (for which he immersed himself in topics ranging from the lives of those awaiting organ transplants, to the cutting-edge robotics program at Carnegie Mellon, to the ecosystem of a children’s hospital), a professor and an editor, all of these identities working toward a final form somewhere between evangelist and carnival barker. “I know that all of this scheming, all of these machinations, seem pretty crass and certainly not literary,” he writes about his efforts to get sustained funding for his seminal magazine, Creative Nonfiction. “I got a lot of heat from colleagues and other writers for being an unabashed promoter and even a self-promoter. Okay, maybe that was true — or partly true. But so what? It might work.”
It did work, and those of us who love the genre — many first drawn in by Gutkind’s magazine or his edited anthology — are grateful for it. These days, I don’t know if anyone would knock the hustle. Doomed hustling is the only literary mode left available, as so many great magazines, especially the kind that published the inventive, diverse work that we might call creative nonfiction, have fallen by the wayside — cut from shrinking university budgets, bought and gutted by venture-capital goons, scrubbed from the internet. The latest issue of Creative Nonfiction came out in 2022; there doesn’t seem to anything coming down the pike.
To look back, in these times of true literary and academic scarcity, the “fist-fighting” of grad program expansion and barbs exchanged between the tenured and endowed can seem like pretty enviable brawls. As much as anything, “The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting” is a book about academia, a version of it that’s nearly extinct. Multiple scenes take place in panels at academic conferences, or during contentious department meetings; enemies are blazered, bloviating, Faulkner scholars who pound the table and refuse to let nonfiction writers into their ivory tower.
In the midst of all this, Gutkind, in his own telling, is the perma-rebel: a former hippie motorcycle man without a graduate degree, who doesn’t belong. He’s the scrappy kid from the real world, pushing himself through every door the fancier folk might want to slam in his face. But for most of the book, he’s ensconced within the literary and academic establishment, ultimately moving comfortably through the tenure track at a major research university in the city where he was born. I don’t mean to downplay Gutkind’s enormous accomplishments; only to say, as a fellow academic, that it’s easy to get caught up in the perceived intrigue of a meeting, to frame yourself only against those in your bubble, to lose sight of the fact that the art being discussed is a far more compelling subject than the minutiae of the discussion about it.
Gutkind is at his best in this book when he grudgingly becomes the type of memoirist that he usually writes about. The moments when he stops to look back on his own evolving perspective and investment are truly compelling — reflecting the continuing intellectual curiosity of someone who cares enough about this field to allow himself to change with it. He thinks back on essays that he rejected from the magazine that he might accept now, and shows us how dogmas seem indispensable until suddenly they’re old fashioned.
Most compellingly, he reflects upon his writing career, the choices he made within the murkily defined borders of creative nonfiction. He describes a scene from his second book, in which he sits outside a motel room to eavesdrop on a fight between two White baseball umpires and their crewmate, the first Black umpire in the National League. Decades on, he delves into not only what happened in the scene but his place as eavesdropper, the context leading up to the moment, the stylistic choices in not making up but certainly emphasizing the cruel language, and most of all, whether “in the end I actually hurt the man I was trying to help.” He puts himself, and us, right back in the moment — and the results are vivid, ambiguous, emotionally resonant, fascinating.
That is the enduring thrill of creative nonfiction — tiptoeing along the border between art and fact. It requires turning a critical eye on your own ambition, your care for others, the literal truth of what happened and the style with which you might express how it felt, as well as the question of whose story is being told and who has the right to tell it. It’s one that Gutkind chronicles as a reader, too, capturing the experience that we who love the genre have all had, coming upon a work that feels epiphanic with all these tensions and intimacies, even if you didn’t have the language to call what you were reading “creative nonfiction.” He writes of what it meant to a young journalist to encounter a piece that broke the rules, as he did when he first read Gay Talese’s “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” And he describes the awe he felt upon reading James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son,” an essay that achieved so much . He captures this experience as an editor, too, when a then-unknown writer sent him her first manuscript and, decades into his career, he discovered that he could still be surprised.
This is, I think, what so often gets buried in discussions about creative nonfiction — including many of those documented in this book. The more one zeroes in on defining and defending, the more the writing can move away from whatever it is that makes the genre meaningful to so many people. Gutkind has given his life to this genre; I wish I knew more about what it means to him.
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
By Lee Gutkind
Yale University Press. 292 pp. $35
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The MFA in Creative Writing program is designed to help you become an excellent creative writer across the genres of creative fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and poetry. You can learn how to produce aesthetically and culturally engaged creative works while gaining professional knowledge and practice. You will also study foundational contemporary literature so that you have a background in studying important works to draw on for your writing.
To help you in your professional writing, you will also study many essential skills in editing, layout, and the business of publishing so that you can best position yourself for success in the market. Through your creative writing courses and workshops, you can develop your craft so that you will be ready for your thesis project.
Here are a few examples of the skills Liberty’s MFA in Creative Writing can help you master:
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- Organizing writing and adapting it to different types of writing
- Tailoring writing to specific audiences and markets
- Understanding what makes art effective, compelling, and impactful
- Writing compelling stories that engage readers
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- Creative Writing Sample – A creative writing sample of one creative writing work of at least 2,500 words or a culmination of creative writing samples totaling 2,500 words.*
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What is an mfa in creative writing.
A Master of Fine Arts degree, or MFA, is a terminal degree in an artistic craft that demonstrates that you have achieved the highest level of training and skill in your discipline. Like a doctorate, an MFA often allows you to teach courses at the graduate level while also providing many opportunities for scholarship and leadership in education. If you want to grow your creative writing skills to become the best writer you can be, then the Master of Fine Arts can help you get there.
How will students work towards developing their writing skills?
With creative writing workshops and a thesis project, you will receive support and guidance to help you become the best writer you can be.
How long will it take to complete the MFA in Creative Writing?
You can complete the MFA in Creative Writing in just 48 credit hours!
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