To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Read “Playing with Form: The Lyric Essay and Mixed Media’ in Tell It Slant. Read “Woven” by Yuknavitch and “On Shining [ … ]
Reading Response 5: Week of 2/8
What does it mean for a piece of prose to be “poetic’ or “like poetry’? This week, we’re looking at the lyric essay. A lyric essay is an essay that [ … ]
Reading Response 4: Week of 2/1
Because creative nonfiction deals with personal events and emotions, it requires us to look “inward” and deeply explore our inner lives. However, it requires us to look “outward” as well, [ … ]
Agenda: Week 4
To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Read “The Particular Challenges of Creative Nonfiction” in Tell It Slant. Read “The Personal (Not Private) Essay” by Dinty Moore, [ … ]
Agenda: Week 3
To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Read “The Basics of Good Writing in Any Form” in Tell It Slant and “The Fourth State of Matter” by Jo [ … ]
Reading Response 3: Week of 1/25
“The Fourth State of Matter’ is, I think, the perfect essay. I hesitate to make such a definitive statement, but, for me, it is the apex of narrative nonfiction. That [ … ]
Agenda: Week 2
To Do: Finish any work from last week (e.g. reading response, introduction on Blackboard). Read “Introduction,” “The Body of Memory,” and “The Tradition of the Personal Essay” in Tell It [ … ]
Reading Response: Week of 1/18
Creative Nonfiction: Part 1 The first genre we will practice in this course is personal creative nonfiction, which is often referred to as creative writing rooted in “fact.’ I place [ … ]
Homework Assignment #1
Assignment #1: I Remember, I Remember Though it has unifying threads, Mary Ruefle’s “I Remember, I Remember” is wandering and associative in its movements, never quite landing at any central [ … ]
Agenda: Week 1
To Do: Introduce yourself on the Blackboard Discussion Board forum. Read the first posting under Assignments>Reading Responses. Read “What is Creative Nonfiction?” by Barrie Jean Borich, “How to Become a [ … ]