Creative Nonfiction

Writing Through the Lens: Think Like a Photographer to Craft Compelling Scenes

Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.

Write flash essays that convey the depth and breadth of your life stories.

Learn to find and tie together the theme in your vignettes, letters, diary entries and more, to create meaning, continuity and flow.

Worried you’ll bore readers by incorporating facts in your creative nonfiction? Make researched material work for you!

When we create images and scenes and shape our stories—transforming experience into art—we can also transform ourselves.

Learn failproof strategies for creating flash fiction and micro memoir.

Learn to write and revise a Hermit Crab essay from the teacher who coined the term, and have fun generating new and surprising work!