Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: Writing Chicago

Undergraduate / Graduate

This writing and reading course will allow us to explore the city of Chicago and many approaches to studying it and responding to it in prose by turns imaginative, narrative, and documentary. We'll think about issues like crises in housing, asylum, incarceration; about art and space in photographs, public murals, sculpture, architecture; and about plants, animals, and waterways. Students will write shorter exercises, keep a mixed media Chicago notebook, and write a longer piece in the genre or hybrid of their choice for workshop. Readings may include Eve Ewing, Lori Waxman, Frank London Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rosalyn LaPier, Stuart Dybek, Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Leonard Dubkin, Rebecca Zorach, Studs Terkel and more. *NOTE: Undergraduate students are expected to have taken Literary Nonfiction Workshop I (CRWR 10406) before enrolling in this class.