Classes & Workshops

"Next-Level Creative Nonfiction: Elevating Essays, Memoir, Travel Writing & Literary Journalism"
online at Writers.com
ten-week class
session currently in progess;
next session begins September 13, 2017
Each week, we’ll explore one essential element of creative nonfiction:

1. crafting good questions,
2. research strategies,
3. the narrative arc,
4. the first-person narrator,
5. strong character development,
6. true-to-life scenes,
7. self-editing techniques, and
8. that elusive thing called “style.”

Eight weeks begin with a new "key" to nonfiction prose; two weeks are devoted to developing a first draft of your work on nonfiction and then revising it.

We’ll dissect great examples from masters of the genre – including James Baldwin, Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Walker, and David Foster Wallace, looking at the gorgeous rooms they unlock with these eight keys to fabulous nonfiction. And then you will each roll up your sleeves and get to writing, putting new skills to work in your nonfiction prose. All literary nonfiction genres, from memoir to literary journalism to lyric essay, are welcome. This online course will include short weekly assignments, with feedback from your peers and from the instructor, and culminate with each writer drafting and revising a 3,000-word nonfiction work. Register at the writers.com website.

Note: This course is now also available and a self-paced course with individualized feedback from Wendy. Contact writers.com director Mark Dalhby for more information.

"Dialogo: Las Platicas en Nuestros Cuentos de Ficcion y No-Ficcion"
Biblioteca Central
1000 Fourth Ave. Piso 4, Sala 1
Seattle, Washington
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

See the events page for reading and talks.