Nonfiction

Instructor: Roxane Gay Wednesday, 1:00pm-4:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students We spend our lives in unruly, all too human bodies. While doing so, we must contend with the public narratives about our bodies - how they are seen and...

Instructor: Jason Silverstein Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a practicum in writing publishable op-eds on health, science, and injustice. Week by week we dissect how writers use investigations and...

Instructor: Sebastian Smee Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In an attention economy, with phone cameras and AI ubiquitous, are we losing the ability to describe what we see with our own eyes? What meaning can...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to use humor as the bedrock of their creative nonfiction writing. Humor connects us as human beings...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing, investigative reportage, magazine...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir, or environmental writing, creative nonfiction is a powerful genre that allows writers to...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to use humor as the bedrock of their creative nonfiction writing. Humor connects us as human...

Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students People don't just happen. In this workshop-based class, students will explore the capacity of memoir and cultural criticism to illuminate their...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course will focus on the genres of nonfiction writing commonly published in magazines: the feature, the profile, the personal essay, and longform arts...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site In this workshop-based class, students will consider themes that intersect with the Young Adult genre: gender and sexuality, romantic and...