Illness, Health, Creative Nonfiction taught by Robin McCrary
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 10am - 4pm
- Saturday, Oct 7, 2023 10am - 4pm
Location
This event is hosted by the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University and will be help virtually on Zoom.
Details
How can we use creative nonfiction to better examine illness as experience? How can we observe ways illness and healing are shaped by language and story? Rather than rely on preconceived ideas about the nature of (an) illness, how can creative nonfiction by ill persons and their loved ones alike offer tools to be attentive to authors’ experiences? In this course, students craft personal/autobiographical texts focused on aspects of illness(es) while engaging with diverse samples of creative nonfiction. The texts students produce and consume will (1) be filtered through gendered, racialized, sexual, and/or (dis) abled bodies and (2) explore how authors’ experiences can be used to benefit those who share/are involved in these experiences— including but not limited to their loved ones, other ill persons, healthcare practitioners, and those seeking a greater understanding of this part of the human condition.
Please note: This workshop will be offered on two consecutive Saturdays: October 7 and 14, each day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
