ENC 5317 Spring 2023 Schacochis

This workshop and its traditional format are designed for prose lovers with the desire to feel liberated to write in any main genre that suits their purpose and artistic vision. Two of my favorite writers, Zadie Smith and Joan Didion, serve as perfect role models for the literary aspirations of the members of this class—Writers with a capital W, with a comprehensive knowledge of all techniques that transform words into literature. You have to talk (critiquing your classmates’ work) and you have to write (a minimum of 25 new pages—essays, personal essays, memoir excerpts: as you please). Also, you’ll need two survival tools: a sense of humor, and a refusal to tolerate censorship.