A Course in the Craft & Life
of Writing Creative Nonfiction, the Personal Essay & Memoir
The Colony Café
in the heart of
Woodstock, New York
8 Tuesdays
Sept. 20-Nov. 8
7-9:30 PM
with
JEFF DAVIS
$250/$225 if pre-registered by Aug. 15
Writing the truth requires grit, authenticity, and a lively imagination. Often called “the fourth genre,” creative nonfiction is a rich way to imagine the truth. Join author and teacher Jeff Davis in this course designed at once to introduce, immerse, and inspire writers in this exciting field. The eight-week course will afford writers the opportunity to develop, re-vision, and refine a nonfiction essay, a personal essay, or excerpt from a memoir.
* Gain an invaluable overview of this genre’s trends and the publications that will help you enter the dialogue of nonfiction. * Practice playing with the elements of strong fiction in non-fiction. * Create “experiential time and space” by crafting artful narrative & description and by playing with organic forms. * Navigate dark regions that make for authentic insight. * Integrate your knowledge of research, history, culture, & more. * Become part of a thoughtful, intelligent writing group using a beneficial workshop method. Sessions include brief & focused talks, provocative writing exercises, optional share & supportive "workshop" sessions, and the study of other essayists’ works. Optional out-of-session assignments will inspire writers to imagine, think, feel, and live as nonfiction writers. Course outline available.
POSSIBLE TEXTS:
We may find it useful to have
some of the following common texts to study nonfiction writing together:
*The Art of the Personal Essay
(Ed., P. Lopate)--an excellent anthology of essays from the past two thousand
years;
*Speak, Memory (Nabokov);
*The Journey from the Center
to the Page (J. Davis).
We're reserving THE COLONY CAFE on Tuesday nights just for this course. This landmark cafeoffers us an ideal space to gather 'round round tables to explore ideas, discuss writing, and to learn together. It's located on Rock City Road--1/8 of a mile from the Woodstock Village Green.
A creative writing teacher for
eighteen years, JEFF DAVIS is
author of The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies
and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing (Penguin 2004) and the
poetry collection City Reservoir (1999). He works as Managing Editor
for Wildlife
Watch Binocular,
and his articles and essays have appeared in publications such as Enlightened
Practice,
Conscious Choice,
Sulphur River Literary Review. He teaches writing at Marist College
and teaches creative writing workshops at the University of New Mexico’s
Taos Summer Writers Conference, the Skyros Centre in Greece, and at the
Block Island Poetry Project.
REGISTRATION
The limited spaces will fill
up soon.
BY MAIL
Send a check for the appropriate
amount made payable to Jeff Davis at P.O. Box 601, Bearsville, NY 12409.
ONLINE (credit card or check)
Use the PayPal system below.
NOTE: Please be sure to
add 3% to your PayPal payment. Thanks.
Tuition before August 15:
$250.00
Tuition after August 15:
$225.00
NOTE: Please be sure to add 3% to your PayPal payment. Thanks.
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