A 5-Week Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Thursdays: August 1-29, 6-9 PM
Many writers assume adventure writing has to involve physical risks to the writer, as seen in narratives involving mountaineering, rock-climbing, river-running, and sailing. Yet the essence of Adventure Writing is that something has to be at risk, and not necessarily physical risk. The risk can be emotional, spiritual, personal, sexual, and any combination thereof. As adventure writing is a subset of creative nonfiction, in the first two weeks of the course we will begin by reviewing the principles of CNF, then looking at examples of adventure narratives and responding to prompts. The goal is for students to craft their own adventure narratives and, depending on the class needs and desires, share work during the sessions, in order to learn from each other and receive helpful feedback.
Michael Burke is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and English at Colby College. His publications include the memoir/adventure, The Same River Twice (University of Arizona Press) and feature nonfiction and essays in Down East, Yankee, Islands, Outside, Boston Globe, The New York Times, Maine Décor, AMC Outdoors, The Sunday Times (South Africa), and other national publications. He is also a playwright, having won the 2018 Maine Literary Arts Award. For more than 30 years he was a whitewater and wilderness river guide in Idaho, Alaska, Oregon, California, Arizona and Mexico, having made several first-descents by raft. He lives in Wilton with his wife, the fiction writer Patricia O’Donnell.
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