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Creative Nonfiction (Online Course) (EGL 122 W)
The fastest-growing field in contemporary writing, creative nonfiction, is an umbrella term for memoir, travel writing, biography, science writing, nature writing, personal essays, and other genres. Often, a single work of creative nonfiction will draw from several of these forms, as well as from the dramatic and lyric arts. In this course, we will read published work by established and not-so-established writers, as well as an essay or book chapter submitted by each student. All work— student and published—will be read in the same way, with careful, critical enthusiasm. There are no rules to creative nonfiction, but we will explore some of the organizing principles of this form.
In the first half of this course, we will develop our understanding of the form and explore certain issues of ethics and craft particular to it. In the second half, we will turn our sharpened critical eyes toward our own work. “Each man bears the entire form of Man’s estate,” said Michel de Montaigne. We will look to published and student work to see whether he is right.
Please note: This is an online course.
Sara Michas-Martin
Former Stegner Fellow
Sara Michas-Martin has taught creative writing at Stanford and the University of Michigan, and was twice a Poet-in-the-Schools in Tucson, Arizona. She is the recipient of numerous awards including scholarships from the Hall Farm Center and the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Community of Writers conferences. Her poems have appeared in Court Green, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Threepenny Review, on the Poetry Daily website, and elsewhere.
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Course Details
10 weeks
Sept 22 - Dec 7
3 units $750
Limit: 17
Drop by: Sep 25
(No class November 23 - 29)
Special refund deadline: September 25
Register Aug 18
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