MAIS 617: Creative Non-Fiction is a hybrid course in which students will have a chance to do both literary criticism and creative work.
Required Readings |
Introduction to Going Some Place: Creative Nonfiction Across Canada, by Lynne Van Luven. |
Introduction to Beyond the Writers’ Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction, by Carol Bly |
Introduction to Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-fiction, by Daniel Francis. |
“What Is Creative Nonfiction Anyhow?” by Philip Gerard |
“Me, Myself, and I,” by James Wolcott |
“Becoming the Godfather of Creative Nonfiction,” by Lee Gutkind |
"The Weschler Connection," by Doug Diesenhaus
Poets & Writers. New York: May/Jun 2006. Vol. 34, Iss. 3; pg. 50 |
Supplementary Readings: of use throughout the course. |
Required Readings |
“On Seeing and Being Seen: The Difference Between Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love,” by Alicia Elliott |
“The Golden Bough,” by John Vaillant |
Required Readings |
“Sword swallowing on the tundra,” by Samuel Hearne. |
“The Ghosts of Emmett Till,” by Richard Rubin |
“Elegy for a Country’s Seasons,” by Zadie Smith |