Restricted to Jimenez-Porter Writers' House students.

This course explores the fertile ground where lived experience meets imaginative storytelling. Through a blend of personal narrative, fictional techniques, and reflective craft study, students will learn how to draw from their own histories to create layered, resonant fiction. We'll examine how memory, identity, voice, and vulnerability shape narrative choices - and how transforming truth through fiction can open new creaive possibilities. Readings will include autofiction, autobiographical short stories, and author essays on craft. Students will generate new work through guided exercises and develop a short story or excerpt rooted in autobiographical material.