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Writers Workshops

Creative Nonfiction Online – 2021-406

Course #2021-406
Wednesdays Starting August 4 6:30 pm–8:30 pm running 6 weeks
Cost: $240 Instructor: Theodora Ziolkowski
This workshop is full
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Please note that this is an online workshop conducted via Zoom. Participants will be provided information on how to join the online sessions.

Over the course of this workshop, we will do a deep dive into studying creative nonfiction in its myriad forms. The first three weeks of this class will be devoted to closely reading and examining effective craft strategies we identify in published work. We will also engage in generative exercises designed to develop, and ultimately polish, essays-in-progress. Throughout this process of the explorations we make in our writing, we might ask ourselves how we draw the reader toward certain revelations in our work and experiment with ways these discoveries might be achieved on the page.

For the final three weeks of our class, our time together will be dedicated to workshopping excerpts from participants’ essays. Writers who are willing to share will be asked to circulate the first five (maximum) pages of their essays among the group in advance of the meeting at which they are scheduled to be workshopped. We will approach our discussions of our work with an eye toward development as well as revision, and with an emphasis on both creating a clear and vivid opening and isolating our essay’s obsessions—ones we might be able to ultimately expand upon in a collection or book. Finally, we will discuss publishing platforms and other ways to market your writing. Writers at any stage in their work are welcome.

About the instructor

THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI is the author of On the Rocks and Mother Tongues. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Writer’s Chronicle, Short Fiction (England), and Prairie Schooner, among many other publications. A three-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best New Poets nominee, Theodora’s prose has been listed in Wigleaf’s Top 50 List of Very Short Fictions (2020). She has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, the National Alumni Association (University of Alabama), and Inprint (Houston, Texas). Theodora is a recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. Recently, she served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and Fiction Editor for Big Fiction. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. Visit her at theodoraziolkowski.com.

Please note that online workshops are nonrefundable. By registering for an Inprint Writers Workshop you are agreeing to Inprint’s registration policies. If this workshop is full when you try to register, please sign up on the waiting list here so you receive priority registration the next time this class is offered. For details and a schedule of all the current workshop offerings, click here. 

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