Make Your Non-Fiction Sing
Description: In this one-night workshop we’ll learn techniques for bringing aspects of fiction craft into your non-fiction essays, columns, magazine stories or even letters to your friends.
Writing prompts will lead you to explore the importance of details, character development, setting and action. Come prepared with a current creative non-fiction draft or come with a clean sheet of paper to begin!
Who Should Attend: Writers at all levels of experience. There is no need to have a piece ready before class.
About the Instructor: Alyson Paige Warren holds an MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She adores teaching various forms of writing at StoryStudio Chicago, East West University and St. Augustine College. Each summer she teaches in the “High Jump” program with the Latin School of Chicago and the StoryStudio Chicago Youth Institute for young writers. She has been featured in readings at StoryStudio Chicago (where she emceed the reading series) and at the Uptown Writer’s Space, as well as guest lecturing at Columbia College in Chicago. She has edited a book of poetry (soon to be released) by Jenene Ravesloot. Paige is writing Sex Sells: Confessions of a Victoria’s Secret Salewench, a creative non-fiction long piece about working in retail. She has also recently finished a children’s book (Why Owl Does Not Sleep at Night) which she is in the process of illustrating.