Course Schedule


Overview of Creative Nonfiction

Week 1: Jan 29 – Feb 2

M 1/29

W 1/31

Journal #1 due 2/2

Theme 1: Writing About Self

Week 2: Feb 5 – 9 

M 2/5

W 2/7

Journal #2  due 2/9

Week 3: Feb 12 – 16

M 2/12

  • College Closed

W 2/14

Journal #3 due 2/16

Week 4: Feb 19 – 23

M 2/19

  • College Closed

W 2/20

  • Read “Bad Feminist” By Roxane Gay
  • Submit Messy Draft #1 and bring to class for peer review

Th 2/22

  • Classes follow a Monday schedule
  • Read “Girl” by Alexander Chee

Journal #4 due 2/23

Theme 2: Writing About Place

Week 5: Feb 26 – Mar 1

M 2/26

W 2/28

Journal #5 due 3/1

Week 6: Mar 4 – 8

M 3/4

W 3/6

  • Read  “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White 
  • Submit Messy Draft #2 and bring to class for peer review

Journal #6 due 3/8

Theme 3: Writing About People

Week 7: Mar 11 – 15

M 3/11

W 3/12

  • Group Craft Talk #3 
  • Read “Heroin/e” by Cheryl Strayed

Journal #7 due 3/15

Week 8: Mar 18 – 22 

M 3/18

W 3/20

Journal #8 due 3/22

Theme 4: The Lyric Essay & Other Experimental Forms

Week 9: Mar 25 – 29 

M 3/25

W 3/27

Journal #9 due 3/29

Week 10:  Apr 1 – 5 

M 4/1

W 4/3

  • Read “Strange Flowers” by Karrie Higgins
  • Submit Messy Draft #4 and bring to class for peer review

Journal #10 due 4/5

Theme 5: Speculative Nonfiction

Week 11: Apr 8 – 12

M 4/8

W 4/10

  • Group Craft Talk #5
  • Read“What He Took” By Kelly Grey Carlisle

Journal #11 due 4/12

Week 12: Apr 15 – 19

M 4/15

W 4/17

Journal #12 due 4/19

Week 13: Apr 22 – 26

M 4/22

  • Spring Recess

W 4/24

  • Spring Recess

Writing Workshops 

Week 14: Apr 29 – May 3

M 4/29

  • Spring Recess

W 5/1

1 In-Progress Draft due 5/3

Week 15: May 6 – 10

M 5/6

  • Read and comment on Workshop Group 1 submissions

W 5/8

  • Read and comment on Workshop Group 2 submissions

Journal #13 due 5/10

Week 16: May 13 – 15 

M 5/13

  • Read and comment on Workshop Group 3 submissions

M 5/15

  • Last day of classes
  • Read and comment on Workshop Group 4 submissions

Journal #14 due 5/15

Final Exam – TBA

in lieu of an exam: Open Mic Performances

1 Transformed Draft due

 

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