Hugo House: Story Fundamentals in Creative Nonfiction with Nicole Treska

Story structure is essential to creative nonfiction. In this class, we'll dive into the craft of writing beginnings, middles, and ends that keep your reader invested. We'll examine the construction of scenes and stories, the components of a chapter, and narrative throughlines in book-length work. We'll look at the words of Mitchell Jackson, Alexander Chee, Patti Smith, and more and discuss strategies for making the structural process easier. This class includes time for generative writing, editing, and workshopping. You'll leave with an improved ability to structure your creative nonfiction and a better sense of how to weave interiority, themes, and flashbacks into characters and front-moving narratives. Bring a scene to the workshop, no longer than one page.REGISTRATION DATES: 

March 12: Member registration opens at 10:30 am PT 

March 19: General registration opens at 10:30 am PT 

March 25: Last day of Early Bird pricing

DEBUT MEMOIR✨ WONDERLAND✨ SOLD TO SIMON AND SCHUSTER (PUB DATE 10/23)

January 2022

 

Gullkistan Residency for Creative People, Iceland, 2016

 Salon reading "Mainahs"- New York Society Library, April 2015 

Travel and Fiction Writing Grantee 2012