ENC 5317 Roberts Spring 2021
In this workshop we will read nonfiction writers which may include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Virginia Woolf, Samantha Irby, James Baldwin, Helen Macdonald, Bob Shacochis, Rebecca Solnit, Hilton Als, William Hazlitt and other luminaries of the genre.
Students will produce 20-30 pages of prose: stand-alone essays, linked short pieces, or part of a larger work which might be memoir, personal essay, travel or nature writing, investigative work; nonfiction is a broad church. I would hope that some of you would try to publish, too. We will also discuss how to pitch editors and how to write a nonfiction book proposal.
Requirements: For MFA students, this course satisfies 3 of the required 12-15 hours of writing workshops. For PhD students, it counts toward the 27 hours of required coursework.