English 290 - Crafting Creative Nonfiction: Writing Creative Nonfiction Through Photography

A writer’s workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing and critiquing. Writing sample andpermission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12: This is a journalistic writing course using photography as a guide and tool. Students will take some photographs and do a lot of writing: blog posts, profiles, and full-length magazine-style reported articles. As we grapple with such literary issues as structure, metaphor, tone, voice, and pacing, we will let photography interrogate our writing. What can such pictorial concerns as focus, composition, point of view, breadth of frame and depth of field tell us? Course requires no prior photography experience or expertise. Applicants must submit a writing sample, an original piece or pieces totalling approx. 1000 words.

Writing Sample Required.