Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Comedy and Creative Nonfiction

Harvard FAS

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 and creates and sustains attention and trust from our readers. You will write three nonfiction essays in this class, and the topics that you touch on may well be dark or difficult; this is up to you. Humor is often a means to navigating, inverting, and confronting our sadder and most challenging life stories. As I see it, making people laugh…