Creative Writing Workshop: Narrative Journalism

Harvard FAS

This workshop is a writing-intensive course designed to develop students' ability to tell true stories. We will apply techniques commonly associated with fiction--narrative structure, character development, scene setting, point of view, rhythm, and mood--to nonfiction writing, creating journalism that is rigorously reported, vividly written, powerfully felt, and factual. We'll consider questions of style, subjects, and ethics. While many of the examples of literary journalism we will study…