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Creative Nonfiction: A Writing Workshop

CAU On-campus Summer Programs

Week 4: August 2-8, 2009

Creative Nonfiction: A Writing Workshop

Childhood memoir, personal essay, travel writing, portraits, short vignettes, essays of place, photo essays, nature writing, literary journalism--all these forms invite us to write about the real world with personal commitment, grace, and power. In this workshop, CAU stalwart Lynda Bogel, senior lecturer in the Department of English at Cornell, will provide strategies for making your creative nonfiction take shape, for speaking with your voice and point of view, and for communicating imaginatively with your audience. We'll look for anecdote, dialogue, scene-setting, suspense, character development, and telling descriptions to dramatize the lively intelligence you bring to your writing. In drafting and re-drafting your pieces, you will have feedback from classmates and Lynda, all paying attention to language that soars, the power of storytelling, the pursuit of fact, and the roads to play and discovery. No special background or training is necessary.

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Once you've registered, we'll send you materials on the academic program and other information to help you prepare for CAU. Please include deposits ($50 per person, per class) with your registration. All deposits are applied to the full program charges. See the On-campus Summer Program Fees page for information about program fees and deposit amounts.