701 Compelling History: Making Historical Nonfiction Come Alive (ENGLISH)

This workshop will focus on ways to elevate historical nonfiction into gripping, exciting storytelling. We’ll be focused on ways to shape a story so that it grabs a reader and draws them in without sacrificing accuracy or research. We’ll look at how to take real events as they happened and shape them into a narrative structure that readers can latch on to. Additionally, we’ll discuss how to research and add small details and little touches — the kinds of things one finds in fiction that can often be left out of history — and how to use them to evoke a time and place in the past. And we’ll look at unusual or unlikely research methods that can be used to develop your historical writing in new, lively ways.

Instructor

Colin Dickey