Instructor: Melissa Fraterrigo
Date: Wednesday, April 16
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $50 Nonmembers, $32 Writer/Reader Members, $28 Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian Members

You have a story to tell, but how best to get the scenes and memories on the page so that readers feel as if your lived experience is also theirs? In this class, we’ll explore the following three narrative structures in creative nonfiction that reveal personal and universal wisdoms: narrative, flash, and braid.

Class time will be used to examine these three different approaches to structure a narrative, the benefits of each, and then we will use this discussion to try our hand at the multiple possibilities structure affords in our own writing. You will leave this class with the start of three new essays or one essay with three different approaches and endless possibilities.

About the instructor:
Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press, fall 2017) and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press). Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in more than forty literary journals and anthologies from Shenandoah and The Massachusetts Review to storySouth, and Notre Dame Review. She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train on multiple occasions, twice nominated for Pushcart Awards, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. She teaches classes on the art and craft of writing at the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette, Indiana.