|
|
 |
| Our World As Stories: Crafting Narrative Essays |
| |
Monday, June 18, 2012; 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM 
U of I Lifetime Enrichment Adult Program
In this course, we will consider our lives as stories. We’ll mine the depths of our experiences to record unique moments and express them creatively through writing. These essays, called narrative essays, consider particular life experiences—one unique moment that shaped your perception, emotions, or even your future actions—and presents them as stories that can resonate with others. Narrative essays are useful for a variety of reasons: they create permanent records of our existence, examine emotions and past actions, and express our lives creatively to help others learn from what we’ve discovered. In this course, we’ll read a variety of narrative essays that cover a broad range of life experiences, and we’ll respond to a multitude of in-class writing prompts and exercises that generate material to be used for longer essays. We’ll talk about effective writing techniques and receive feedback from our peers that help shape stronger, more poignant narrative essays. By the end of this course, you’ll not only have narrative essays worthy of publishing or sharing with others, but you’ll have constructed something permanent of the moments that shaped your life.
Dylan Nice holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa, where he currently teaches in the Certificate in Writing Program. His stories and essays have appeared in NOON, MAKE, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Quick Fiction, The Rumpus, Hobart, and others. His first collection of fiction, Other Kinds, is due out from Short Flight/Long Drive Books in August. He enjoys pizza and the Beatles.
|
 
|
| Our World As Stories: Crafting Narrative Essays also occurs on: | | Mon, Jun. 11, 2012 | Wed, Jun. 13, 2012 | Mon, Jun. 18, 2012 | | Wed, Jun. 20, 2012 | Mon, Jun. 25, 2012 | Wed, Jun. 27, 2012 | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
