DelawareScene: Creative Nonfiction Workshop @ Delaware Art Museum

Creative Nonfiction Workshop

What does it mean to write your truth? Is there a meaningful memory that you would like to capture in story form? Or is there a broader issue that you would like to explore through research and narrative writing? This creative nonfiction writing workshop, created and led by Cassandra Lewis, is an opportunity for adult writers of all levels to share excerpts of their creative nonfiction works in progress in a welcoming environment and receive encouraging feedback. Creative nonfiction encompasses true stories in the forms of memoir, personal essay, and literary journalism.

Using a writer – centered workshop method designed to foster cohesion and community, each writer gets to decide how layered their feedback will be. Another unique benefit of Cassandra’s workshop method is that homework is an optional extension of each writer’s individualized weekly writing goals. Writers are encouraged to continue writing and revising and to read published works that relate to their works in progress.

Writers in this workshop will build and refine a strategy to stay motivated and keep up the momentum by setting writing goals that fit within their real – life schedules. Reviewing the foundational story elements, writers will apply these concepts to their own work by responding to writing prompts that are focused on revision and expansion.

This class will meet at the Delaware Art Museum for six sessions, Thursday evenings from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm, from April 16 through May 28 (no class on April 30). Please register at least two weeks in advance by visiting DelArt.org. Class will be limited to the first 10 writers who register.

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