The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane will hold a multi-week workshop where people can work alongside a published writer and professor.
Telling True Stories: A Creative Writing Workshop is a program where people will spend eight weeks learning how to improve their creative nonfiction skills. The series will teach writers story-writing elements that can be applied to literary journalism and narrative nonfiction pieces. Students will get to have their work critiqued at least twice throughout the workshops, and participants can also review and provide feedback to their fellow writers.
The instructor of the writing workshop is Jenny Davis, an accomplished writer who also teaches journalism at Gonzaga University. She is the managing editor of Guernica, a nonprofit literary magazine that publishes works like memoirs, interviews, and multimedia journalism. Davis went to the University of Iowa and has been featured in publications such as Creative Nonfiction and the Gettysburg Review. Her work was once nominated for a Pushcart prize.
The creative nonfiction workshop series will be held each Sunday from February 18 to April 7. There will be no classes held on March 31. The cost of the program is $360 per student, though members of the museum will be eligible for a discount. Those who put together classes like this may use poster printing to make local advertisements that promote their lessons.
