Samuel G. Freedman
Three-day Workshop
Writing Narrative Nonfiction and the Book Proposal
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 2 to 5 p.m.

MDC, Wolfson Campus

The workshop will instruct participants in the craft of reporting and writing narrative non-fiction. It will specifically teach how to prepare a book proposal for submitting to agents, editors or publishers. And it will discuss the current climate of the publishing industry. Students will submit a sample of up to 2,000 words to be discussed in class (maximum 2,000 words) by April 15.

Facilitator
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the six acclaimed books, most recently Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life and Letters To A Young Journalist. His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School; Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church; and The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond and Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. Freedman is currently at work on his seventh book, The Big Game: Football and Freedom in the Civil Rights South.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 2 to 5 p.m.

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.