CRW 233 Creative Non-Fiction Writing I

In this course, emerging writers will learn how to translate personal experience and research into effective pieces of creative nonfiction. Through reading and analysis, across a broad spectrum of content and form, writers will imbue meaning into the term "creative nonfiction." Essays and course texts require students to wear the hat of both the scholar and writer as they consider the ethical questions that are an intrinsic part of creative nonfiction. Writers will create a series of personal essays; read and critique essays written by their peers; practice strategies for self-editing and revision; respond to writing prompts; gain familiarity with different genres of creative nonfiction; and create new work to add to their portfolio for submission to online and print literary magazines and journals. Creative Non-Fiction Writing I and II may be taken in either sequence.