Creative Non-fiction: Harnessing the Wild Imagination

Nathalie Franco

Community Meeting Room, 3rd floor

In this workshop, we will explore the wonderous world of non-fiction, specifically focusing on the "creative" side that can come from writing literary non-fiction. The goal of this workshop is to help you branch outside the restrictive conventions of non-fiction, and venture into how we can imagine our works taking a new form. We will practice how to write genre-bending narratives through the lens of non-fiction, learning how to weave, braid, and blend various genres(ex: fiction, poetry, etc.), and writing styles (ex: hermit crab essays, braided essays, etc.) with your story. This workshop will exclude talking about how to write journalism and academic papers (reports, academic research, etc.). This does not mean that you cannot utilize journalistic tools and academic writing in our writing exercises, it just means that in this workshop we will focus on how we challenge ourselves and intertwine those and other various styles into our literary non-fiction. Join us in seeing how "creative" non-fiction can be!