Department of English

This workshop will touch on how to write (almost) anything nonfiction. We will read nonfiction across ages and continents, and also within the genre—memoir, essay, reportage, travel writing, literary journalism, art criticism. During the semester, you will write four short pieces of different kinds of nonfiction, which we will workshop in class. Readings will likely include Toni Morrison, Ibn Battutah, N. Scott Momaday, Georges Didi-Huberman, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Valeria Luiselli, Sabrina Orah Mark, Michael Herr, Annie Dillard, Ahmad ibn Fadhlan, Ryszard Kapuscinski. Suitable for all levels. This class is here to help you discover and strengthen your own voice.