1001 Elevating Life into Art: Creative Nonfiction (ENGLISH)

Memoirs. Travelogues. Lyric Essays. Literary Journalism. Testimonios. No matter whether you are conducting an internal excavation or an external investigation, all forms of Creative Nonfiction are welcome in this workshop. Submit a manuscript of 8-10 pages, and together, we will strive to push it to the next level by taking risks both in content and in form. Questions we’ll be asking: Where is the essay’s pulse? How can it beat louder — or deeper? Should the story follow a classic rise-fall arc or be a fractured narrative with a scrambled chronology? In addition to critiquing each other’s work, we will also discuss ways of feeding ourselves as artists both figuratively and literally, by sharing our motivations and strategizing on sustainable ways of fueling our practice. So join us. Together, we will be pilgrims wandering the wilderness of memory. Arbiters of the dynamic Fourth Genre. We will elevate life into art. We will write words that matter.

Instructor

Stephanie Elizondo Griest