ENGL 380 Creative Writing: Writing Identity

This is a multi-genre workshop with a focus on autobiographical fiction and memoir. Using students' own work we will talk about general issues of craft but here there will be a focus on situating your writing in a particular geographical locale a particular historical moment tapping into the experiences and memories from your own lives that can fuel your best writing. We will write what we know in the hopes of discovering what we don't know. We will "look for the stories that didn't happen within the stories that did." (John Gardener)