Sorry! This workshop is currently full. To be added to the waitlist, please fill out the form below.

Instructor: Judith Huge
Monday - Friday
August 12 - 16
10am - 12pm
5 sessions

In creative nonfiction, true stories come from the self. As Bret Lott writes, “the self is the continent, and the writer is its first explorer.” To “tell (these stories) well,” the creative nonfiction writer uses the literary techniques available to the fiction writer, including but not limited to creating compelling characters, recreating conversations, capturing the subject in scenes, building on both the intimate details of a life and the inner point of view of the narrator.
Working together as a community of both new and seasoned writers, we will explore four forms of creative nonfiction—the personal essay, autobiographical short story, book-length memoir, and currently-trending narrative nonfiction—adding a fifth: poetry. This is because creative nonfiction, lying along the borders of fiction and poetry, relays personal experience in the form of story, polished as if it were a poem.

In addition to being able to experiment with or fine tune any of these forms, you will find techniques helpful for each form useful in the others, including the emerging form of hybrid non-fiction.  Each day you will have the opportunity to share work-in-progress or create your own new work based on prompts provided in the class. This personal involvement with others and with your own work can help alleviate the anxiety of writing, encourage self-discovery, and even provide the satisfaction that comes from knowing that you are at last seeing yourself as a “writer.”    

This workshop will meet at Edgewood Farm.

Judith Huge has spent over 40 years developing innovative approaches to both learning and writing. As president of her own national consulting firm, teacher of both undergraduate and graduate-level college courses, and director of writing workshops across the country, she has made a difference in the way thousands of people find, craft, and promote their writing voices. Former board chair of the International Women’s Writing Guild based in New York, she has taught for summer conferences at Skidmore, Brown, Yale, Muhlenberg and Endicott Colleges, among others, as well as for Truro Center of the Arts at Castle Hill where she served on the board for many years.