Most often, Creative Nonfiction deals with truth and reality. But there is room in memoir and personal essay for speculation, meditation, imagination, and experimentation. In this master class, we will read and discuss pieces that move beyond narration, reportage, and interrogation toward speculation: essays that build upon and expand the nascent genre of speculative nonfiction in innovative ways. We’ll begin with a short lecture, then move on to a discussion, looking at essays that seek to reimagine what is possible, speculating about alternate histories and realities, working with metaphor rather than the literal, deliberately moving backward and/or forward in time, and suggesting new ways of seeing and thinking about time and space within the essay. Finally, we’ll have short writing exercises.

This master class is exclusively for BIPOC writers.
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