Craft of Creative Nonfiction

This craft class will explore flash or micro-nonfiction, as well as brief modular essays and books. In addition to writing short nonfiction, we will read writers such as Sei Shonagon, Jenny Boully, Naomi Shihab Nye, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay, Pico Iyer, E.B. White, T Fleischmann, Elissa Washuta, Clarice Lispector, Teju Cole, Jorge Luis Borges, Hanif Abdurraqib, Amy Fusselman, Jaquira Díaz, Sarah Manguso, and Jamaica Kincaid. Writing, discussion, and revision will culminate in students producing a short collection of flash nonfiction. Open only to students in the MFA program.
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Craft of Creative Nonfiction

WRITING 5520

Section 01