ENC 3310 Summer 2024 - Niekamp

This section of ENC 3310 is an introductory course in the craft of creative nonfiction, a genre that includes a miscellany of forms aimed at the artful presentation of truth, fact, experience, and memory. Situated within this genre are essays of all kinds (personal, lyric, meditational, etc.); works of reportage (literary journalism, profiles, science writing, nature writing, travel writing, etc.); works that tell life stories (autobiography, biography, memoir, etc.); works of cultural, literary, and political criticism; and more. Some works of nonfiction will fit comfortably within one of these subgenres, but many will resist easy categorization. In this class, we will explore the many possibilities of the genre by reading and discussing published work and by writing original pieces of creative nonfiction, two of which will be workshopped (read, critiqued, and discussed) by the class.