Creative Non Fiction

• • • Different forms of memoir and creative nonfiction.
  • • Writing techniques, tips and tools.
  • • Writing about places, landscape and nature.
  • • Telling other people’s stories.
  • • Ethical and creative decisions writers make.

Others

Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed ENG2WAB (Writing Autobiography), or ENG3WAB (Writing Creative Nonfiction) are ineligible to enrol in this subject. Pre-requisites: Students must have completed 60 credit points of Level one subjects.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

In this subject, you are introduced to key forms of creative nonfiction, and the techniques and tools required to write these well. We conduct interlinked experiments in writing and, importantly, reading across a wide range of forms. You will read and interrogate many genres, including memoir, travel, reportage and history. You are encouraged to engage critically with ideas about nonfiction, including: the idea of the narrator and narrative voice; authenticity, objectivity and truth; the relationship between self and others, places, nature and identity; form and genre; humanness and memory; pasts and presents. 

• Assignment 1: 1500 words. Formative. Folio of edited weekly writing activities (35%)
• Assignment 2: 2000 words. Major piece of creative non-fiction plus a short critical reflection. (45%)
• Weekly online collaborative reading activities (500 words equivalent). (10%)
• Contribute responses to weekly online writing prompts (500 words equivalent). (10%)

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