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English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction

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Instructor: Darcy Frey Section 1: Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401 Section 2: Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir or environmental...

English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction: Workshop

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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...

English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction: Workshop

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Instructor: Darcy Frey Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 Sections 001 and 002 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment...

English CMCO. Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Comedy and Creative Nonfiction

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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...

English CMCO. Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Comedy and Creative Nonfiction

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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...

English CWNM. Nonfiction Writing for Magazines

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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...

English CNFD. Creative Nonfiction

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Instructor: Maggie Doherty Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Sever 205 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course is an overview of the creative nonfiction genre and the many different types of writing that are included within it: memoir...

English CMMU. Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Using Music

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Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will think deeply about how music is often at the center of their...

English CNYA. Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Young Adult Writing

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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...

English CSJM. Who Do You Think You Are: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop

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Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students People don't just happen. In this workshop-based class, students will explore the capacity of memoir and cultural criticism to illuminate their...

"The Origins of Creativity" by Louis Menand

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What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction writer” is a writer who doesn’t make stuff up, or is not...

English CMDR. Creative Nonfiction: Departure and Return: "Home" as Doorway to Difference and Identity

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Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to investigate something that directly or indirectly connects everyone: what it means to leave a...