Creative nonfiction is a dynamic way to make sense of the world in all of its beauty and lurking chaos. In this course, we will move chronologically through essential works of nonfiction landing squarely in 2018. In addition to emerging with provisional expertise in the literature of the field, students will also practice writing across the many forms that make creative nonfiction so enticing. While workshopping student essays form the heart of the course, we shall also have class-wide writing and reading prompts that will create an intellectual community and engaged discourse. We will each choose one piece of our writing from the term and create a class Anthology, Fragments of a Former Moon. The class will also be encouraged to attend an optional, program-wide field trip, supported in part by the MFA Writing program, to visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles and to embrace the vibrant literary scene the south. Among the writers we may consider, Woolf, Shonagan, Didion, Weschler, Hazlitt, Saunders, Gornick, Philip, Darznik, Leopold, Koestenbaum, Knausgaard, Baldwin, Tan, and Dillard.

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