{"id":66078,"date":"2016-03-16T07:50:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T05:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/writing-creative-nonfiction-9-week-course\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T07:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T05:50:55","slug":"writing-creative-nonfiction-9-week-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/writing-creative-nonfiction-9-week-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Creative Nonfiction: 9-Week Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing Creative Nonfiction: 9-Week Course<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A South Africa Event on 2016-03-15 19:00:00<\/i><\/p>\n

Instructor: C.W. Cannon Creative Nonfiction blends elements of fiction and essay. It is a perfect medium for students who wish to write about their own lives in ways that will be compelling for other readers. Like fiction writers, we will work on building interesting stories out of our own experiences, with attention to striking details, characterization, and effective pacing. Like essayists, we will also attempt to interpret our experience and draw lessons from it. We will use the workshop method in our class: students will bring in their own work and we will read it and critique it. Depending on class size, each student will be expected to submit original work two to three times over the course of the session. We will also read a range of published creative nonfiction, to get a sense for the possibilities of the form.\u00a0 About C.W. Cannon: C. W. Cannon\u00a0has written and published fiction and nonfiction widely, mostly focused on his native New Orleans. His work has appeared in periodicals such as\u00a0Other Voices, Third Coast, Exquisite Corpse, American Book Review, Constance, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus,\u00a0and the\u00a0New Orleans Times-Picayune.\u00a0His work has been anthologized in\u00a0In Our Own Words: a Generation Defining Itself, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Louisiana in Words,\u00a0and\u00a0New Orleans by New Orleans. His novel,\u00a0Soul Resin\u00a0(FC2 Press, 2002), a New Orleans ghost story, was hailed by Luis Alberto Urrea as \u201ctruly original.\u201d His writing is found most frequently today in\u00a0The Lens, where he contributes essays on New Orleans culture, the south, and race. He was the 2010-2011 Fulbright Professor of American Civilization at Universit\u00e9 Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, where he promoted understanding (for himself and others) of the ancient ties uniting New Orleans and the Senegambian region of West Africa. He teaches writing and New Orleans Studies at Loyola University.\u00a0cwcannon@loyno.edu<\/p>\n

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