Creative Nonfiction Workshop: The Art of Experience

1 Course Unit

Experience can be an elusive thing to capture: a strange hybrid of the highly subjective and the more tangible zone of perceptible fact. How do we strike a balance in narrative nonfiction? Each week we will review classics in the genre, do in-class writing exercises, go on periodic “experiential” assignments, and explore how the art of playing around with the raw material of everyday life (i.e., “reality”) can make for great and unexpected stories. To learn more about this course, visit the Creative Writing Program at https://creative.writing.upenn.edu. Fall or Spring 1 Course Unit