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11/06-11/27 November Creative Nonfiction Group

Instructor: Leah McNaughton Lederman
Dates: 4 Wednesdays: November 6, 13, 20, 27
Time: Asynchronous
Location: Private Facebook Group by invitation
Cost: Free/by donation

In this writing group, we will read samples of creative nonfiction (mostly memoir) and excerpts from books on craft, with an eye on descriptive language, narrative style, tone, themes, word choice, etc. The first Wednesday of each month, a new reading will be posted along with a writing prompt. As the month continues, we will write and revise our work based on the class feedback and conversation. The goal is not only to get us writing but to understand the genre of creative nonfiction, the art of revision, and the power of community. Creative nonfiction writers are encouraged to join but any genre is welcome. Sometimes the best way to grow your writing skills is to study a different genre.

Before the first meeting, you will receive a link for the Facebook Group. This class is asynchronous and meets online via Facebook.

***Pre-registration required.***

About the Instructor:
Leah McNaughton Lederman created two volumes of Café Macabre: A Collection of Horror Stories and Art by Women (SourcePoint Press, 2019; 2021) and her own short story collection: A Novel of Shorts: The Woman No One Sees (2020). Her creative nonfiction has been published in The River and South Review and Defenestration Mag, and her essay “My Bleeding Heart” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2022, Leah published Beautifully Broken: The Katy Hayes Story and her current memoir project involves growing up with a combat veteran father. Leah is a social media volunteer for the Lafayette Writers Studio and assists with social media for the Indiana Writers Center, where she also facilitates the monthly online CNF group. She is the fiction/nonfiction editor for the online literary and arts journal Of Rust and Glass, and she is the director of the Midwest Writers Workshop. Leah lives in the Indianapolis area with her husband and an assortment of children, cats, and dogs.

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Course Instructor: Tina Tocco

Tina Tocco is a Pushcart Prize nominee. As a writer for both children and adults, her work has appeared in kiddie magazines, such as Highlights, Cricket, Humpty Dumpty, AppleSeeds, and Odyssey, and in literary journals, including New Ohio Review, River Styx, Crab Creek Review, Passages North, Potomac Review, Portland Review, Sou’wester, and Italian Americana. Tina’s writing has also been featured in Wild Things: The Best of Italian Americana (Fordham University Press, 2008), The Best Small Fictions 2019 (Sonder Press, 2019), Best Nonfiction Food (Woodhall Press, 2020), and other anthologies. A runner-up for the SCBWI’s Work-in-Progress Grant, Tina was also an honorable mention in the River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest and a finalist in CALYX’s Flash Fiction Contest. Her interview on flash and the craft of writing, “No Wasted Words,” appears in Roanoke Review. In 2021, she was a reader-in-residence for flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. Tina earned her MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College, where she was editor-in-chief of Inkwell. She has taught adults and kids for Hugo House, GrubStreet, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Arts Escape, Kids Short Story Connection, the SCBWI, and other organizations.

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11/06-11/27 November Creative Nonfiction Group

Course Instructor: Tina Tocco

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