ENG 605 Advanced CNF Workshop
This is an advanced workshop course for students who have chosen to focus on CNF (creative nonfiction) at the Master’s level. Students compose manuscripts in the memoir genre or the various styles and subgenres of writing personal essays, or they may continue individual manuscripts, such as a collection of essays, or a collection of critical essays. Students also read important writers in the genre, including Emerson, Zadie Smith, Weldon, Hayden, Orwell, Didion, Thurman, Atwood, Kingsolver, and Wallace. Writing in this course may lead to the Master’s Thesis.