This workshop is for serious beginners as well as more experienced writers who want to delve into the still-evolving genre of creative nonfiction, which includes personal essay, memoir, documentary, and literary journalism. Through in-class writing and weekly assignments, we develop the skills to build a narrative frame around real-life events and situations. Student work is read and discussed in class. Our reading list includes works by Gay Talese, George Orwell, and Katherine Boo, as well as Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi and essays from The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, edited by Phillip Lopate.