Restricted to Jimenez-Porter Writers' House Students.

What can we learn at the intersection of truth-in-life and truth-in-language? This course inquires about how nonfiction writers capture reality through creative techniques, strategy, and project management. Students will read texts and interface with multimedia to analyze personal experiences, cultural contexts, and recurring societal patterns. In addition, students will attempt to capture reality through conventions of creative nonfiction by drafting, workshopping, and revising their own writing. Throughout the class, we will explore oral histories, memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction. We will draw inspiration from the works of authors such as Hanif Abdurraqib, Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Leslie Jamison, and Barbara Ehrenreich.