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Open Creative Nonfiction
Open Creative Nonfiction
Vanessa Gennarelli, vanessa.gennarelli@gmail.com
Vanessa Gennarelli is a Project Manager at Flat World Knowledge, where she edits open-source textbooks for courses in higher education. She received her B.A. in English and Gender and Women’s Studies from Grinnell College, where she facilitated the student-run writers’ group Prozac and Cornflakes. She’s workshopped at Ragdale Writer’s Colony, the American University of Paris, and the University of Iowa. Her original poetry can be found at Poor Posture.
Members
Vanes
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Aeryk
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Jason
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Hari
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Jerem
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Gena
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Tsipo
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Todd
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Summary
This course will assume an understanding of basic writing structures—point of view, conflict, plot, and style. (If you are unfamiliar with such terms, see Wikipedia and The Open Fiction Project (http://www.tofp.org/) as two places to start learning.)
The course will resemble a workshop, with participants writing and critiquing peers, over the six weeks. The point of the course is to encourage peer-to-peer interaction and feedback on one another's work. As such, respect, tact and trust are of supreme importance for the success of the course, so participants should possess and exhibit those traits.
Lastly, memoir can be a gristly task. We will be reading disability narratives, sobriety stories and pieces that address sexuality. Come prepared to wrestle with discomfort.
Click here to read more about the Course Theme, Terms and Class Structure.
Reading List:
Gretel Ehrlich: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning, Chapter 1.
Mark Doty: “Return to Sender:Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir"
Mary Karr: “Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer.”
Nancy Mairs: “On Being a Cripple.”
Honor Moore: “The Bishop’s Daughter.”
Jonathan Raban: “Second Nature.”
Rebecca Solnit: “Detroit Arcadia”
Schedule/Syllabus
