Writing Retreat: Adding Dimensions to Creative Nonfiction

Powerful essays and memoirs stretch beyond the lives and events they depict. In this workshop, you’ll explore several techniques for expanding the dimensions of your creative nonfiction, including speculation, research, structural invention, and stylistic innovation. We’ll take inspiration from authors such as Jo Ann Beard, Ross Gay, Maxine Hong Kingston, Claudia Rankine, and Jesmyn Ward. We’ll aim to challenge and surprise ourselves while weaving the universal with the personal in captivating ways. This workshop combines discussion with a significant amount of writing. Students are asked to bring the draft of an essay, memoir excerpt, or hybrid piece to work on.

This workshop is part of the Writing Retreat. For more retreat information, visit: https://shakeragalley.org/retreat-index/writing-retreat/