IMF 52328 Nonfiction: Writing The Personal Essay and Memoir L W

Instructor

Andrew Pryor

Class Type 

Craft & Workshop

Course Description

This course will focus on the wellspring of memory and reflection and the employment of narrative in creative nonfiction. Students will discuss a variety of personal essays, noting the use of voice, character development, sense of place and time, and narrative arc, and will write their own creative nonfiction pieces for workshop. This course may be taken alongside IMF 52315 – Further Studies in the Personal Essay and Memoir.

Textbook

Tell It Slant
Miller
3rd Edition
ISBN 9781260454598