Steven Church, Workshop Leader
Truth. Lies. Somewhere in Between:
The Risks and Rewards of Creative Nonfiction Writing
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Steven Church, Workshop Leader Truth. Lies. Somewhere in Between: |
Through several activites this workshop will examine the risks (and rewards) of writing creative nonfiction and memoir. We will begin with the assumption that creative nonfiction writing demands a different kind of relationship between the reader and writer, writer and subject. It's a relationship defined by issues of trust.Few other genres invoke such moral outrage and feelings of betrayal (just ask Annie Dillard). Why? What's the big deal? How do we as writers negotiate this risk in our own writing? How do we tell our story, our truth, without being sentimental or offesive to others? What is objective truth? What is the role of clarity in creative nonfiction and memior? Who has the "right" to write memoir? What is the role of imagination in telling a true story? In this workshop, we'll tackle some of those thorny questions as they arise; but we'll spend most of our time writing and sharing our work.
In addition to pen and paper, each participant should bring two things: 1)A photograph of people. (If possible Black-and-white photographs work best. It can be a picture of anyone, but family often make the best subjects.) 2)A meaningful object that you carry with you or keep close to you at all times
Email:Steven.Church@colostate.edu
Enrollment Limit: 20