THE WRITERS INSTITUTE

Dinty W. Moore
Telling It True: Writing About Place, People, and the World
4 days: Wednesday, May 2 - Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m. - 12 noon

Course will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus

The literary genre known as creative nonfiction focuses on the human desire to tell – and be told – compelling stories, but the form includes more than childhood memoir. This four-day course will explore the flexibility and power of the creative nonfiction form, examining the myriad ways in which writers such as Joan Didion, Gay Talese, Susan Orlean, and others combine the personal voice with journalistic observation to transform place, people, food, travel, and nature into gripping prose. We will employ in-class writing and exercises to explore various topics and try our hand at multiple forms.
 
Dinty W. Moore is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. Moore has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, among numerous other venues. He is a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship winner and lives in Athens, Ohio, where he grows heirloom tomatoes and edible dandelions.

Date and Time
Wednesday, May 2 - Saturday, May 5
9 a.m. - 12 noon

 

 

This is a non-credit course.