Getting Started in Creative Nonfiction | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Getting Started in Creative Nonfiction

So you want to try writing creative nonfiction—How to get started? Spend two hours exploring ideas and planning your approach. We’ll talk about finding writable story ideas; deploying the “Three Ps of Research”—people, places, and paper; and finding your preferred style of storytelling. Are you a “fly on the wall” observational writer, a first-person memoirist, or a creator of lyric essays where style contributes to substance? In-class writing prompts will help you prepare to face the blank page with enthusiasm as you start your next CNF project.

Proceeds from this workshop will help fund Arts+Literature Laboratory’s ALL in for the Arts Campaign.

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Sarah White nonfiction writer

Sarah White  is a professional freelance writer, published author, and personal historian who has helped dozens of people write about their lives, individually and in small-group workshops. She holds degrees in Journalism and Creative Nonfiction.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

Galleries are closed on Saturday, April 6 due to Fermat's Last Theater's performance of Mother Courage Alone.  

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