AtomiCreative Research and Non-Fiction Writing Workshop with Joshua Wheeler

TU Delft Library

U.S. professor and author, Joshua Wheeler, travels to the TU Delft Library for the Atomic Reactions program, presented with Hesiodos and SG

A Hesiodos &amp; TU Delft Library collaborative event (16-18h) and literary borrel (18-18:30h) as part of the Atomic Reactions program and exhibition (currently on display in the Library main hall):Creative non-fiction professor and author, Joshua Wheeler, will offer a workshop on creative researching and writing for the students and community of TU Delft that will advise us on how to write about the past without making the same mistakes as previous histories, the mistakes being that historians have long tried to write authoritative or definitive histories that, over time, inevitably prove to be short-sighted.Workshop will consist of: - author reading article excerpt- presentation of research process for article - writing activity stemming from presentation- students share workshop writingWheeler is the author of Acid West (FSG 2018), which contains "Children of the Gadget,” a paradigm-shifting essay on America’s use of atomic weapons on itself. His writing about nuclear weapons has shifed the narrative away from "heroic" stories of weapons development and toward the civilian costs of the testing program. Check out Acid West online @: https://www.acidwest.com/A 2020 NY Times Op Ed by Wheeler: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/75-anniversary-trinity-nuclear-testing.htmlBiography: Joshua Wheeler is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. He's the author of Acid West: Essays, published in 2018 by Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux (FSG Originals). Acid West was a finalist for the Western Writers Spur Award and the New Mexico Book Award. Los Angeles Review of Books describes Acid West as “fluorescent…brilliant…worth reading more than once” while the LA Times says it is "a brilliant portrait of a place and a people...written with enviable verve and erudition." Professor Wheeler’s essays and features have appeared in The Iowa Review, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Harper's, BuzzFeed, NY Times and others. He develops and teaches a wide variety of courses including: HNRS 2000: Living in Communities, HNRS 2020: Immersion Journalism, ENGL 2024: The Complete History of the Essay, ENGL 2025: The Mo/PoMo Novella, ENGL 3133: Experimental Documentary and the Video Essay, ENGL 4001: Writing Creative Nonfiction, ENGL 7001: The Loose Sally: Imagining the Literary Essay, ENGL 7001: The Protest Essay, ENGL 7106: The Fake Memoir.For more info on Hesiodos: https://hesiodos.nl/ For more info on the Atomic Reactions program: https://www.tudelft.nl/library/over-de-library/tu-delft-library-presenteert/atomic-reactions