WRIT 4130  Creative Non-Fiction

Dr. Lori E. Amy, Department of Writing and Linguistics

T/TH 5:00 - 6:15 p.m.
Newton 2211
1011 Humanities Building
lamy@gasou.edu/681-0625

Story-Telling
Acts of Performance and Witness

Because reality is stranger than fiction, you can write an account of what you believe has happened and the result may be a highly dramatic piece of writing. 
Josip Novakovich
What is creative nonfiction?
. . . autobiography, biography, history, speculative or personal essay, new journalism, investigative reporting/analysis and quality feature writing of the quality that appears in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and literary quarterlies. 
In Story-Telling:Acts of Performance and Witness,   we will read and write creative nonfiction.  Our reading will include:
  • articles
  • web sites
  • memoirs
  • essays
  • autobiographies 
We will also write our own creative nonfiction pieces.  Choosing from the different styles of writing we read, each of us will develop final projects that tell something about the world we live in, the lives we have led, the things we have experienced.

This course fulfills the requirements for Advanced Composition.
Prerequisites: C or better in ENG1101 and ENG1102
 

For a more detailed course description, see
http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/lamy/teaching/creatnonfic/creativenonfiction.html