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Noncredit, online learning through the Dept. of Liberal Studies & the Arts
Creative nonfiction is not the tedious essays you might have suffered through learning to write in school. Instead creative nonfiction allows you to use all of the tools of the fiction writer to develop factual material, whether that is material based on your own life or on someone or something else. This course helps you develop or refine your nonfiction writing skills through one-on-one guidance from an experienced writing instructor. This course is entirely online; you will communicate with your instructor via email. You get to go at your own pace, working when and where you wish.
In seven lessons we’ll cover:
Each lesson includes an excerpt (sometimes more) from the top writers in creative nonfiction today. I’ll guide you through reading these excerpts as a writer, seeing what you can glean for your own work from each. You’ll also get an optional writing assignment involving a 250-word excerpt from either your own work or someone else’s that illustrates what we’ve been studying.
Rita Mae Reese has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and anthologies including the Imaginative Writing 3rd Edition, From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, Blackbird, Memorious, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Nation, and Prairie Schooner. She is working on a novel.
She has taught writing at Florida State University and Stanford University. She currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Rita Mae Reese is a world-class instructor. All elements of the class were impeccably planned, organized and executed.” –Chris
“Instructor was great! The instructor is very encouraging, which is wonderful for an introductory course. She looked for what was good in our assignments, and had gentle ways of letting us know what didn’t work.” —Shelagh
"Rita was the best writing instructor I’ve had through Stanford Continuing Studies. Professional delivery and well-paced, challenging assignments! Excellent.” —Janice
“Rita Mae is a fantastic instructor. A frequently tossed-around axiom of the writing community is that there’s no way writing can be taught. Maybe there’s some truth to it, but I definitely improved as a writer and reader specifically due to Rita Mae’s instruction. I’m very grateful to have studied with her.” —Rujuta
“This was the best class I’ve ever taken, and such a rewarding experience. Thank you so much!” —Emily
Registration is just $175, which includes the seven lessons, open email access to your instructor, and a thorough critique of 2,000 words of your creative nonfiction. You will earn 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) when you complete the course.
Your contact for more information about How to Write Compelling Fiction is Rita Mae Reese. 608-890-3330 or rreese@dcs.wisc.edu.
The same writing staff that bring you these great online classes also provide individualized writing critique services. Learn more by visiting our writing critique services Web page. The Writing News
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