Ever wonder why a good novel or short story makes you want to turn the pages and read on? Those same techniques can work for nonfiction, too. Creative nonfiction combines techniques of fiction and nonfiction. The successful creative nonfiction writer strives to incorporate what is important to him or her and then transforms those passions into a compelling narrative. This workshop focuses on how to incorporate these tools into your writing and will help you identify and solidify your structure and foundation, and it will help you clarify your past and present voices. It will provide you with action steps to take as you begin or continue your creative nonfiction or memoir-writing project.

Andrea Weir Estrada is an award-winning novelist, literary journalist, and writing coach. Her novel A Foolish Consistency took first place in the Chatelaine Book Awards and was a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards, the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and the IndieFab Book Awards. As a journalist, she has written thousands of feature articles. Her work has appeared in top magazines and newspapers across the country and around the world, including The New York Times, the London Times, the Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Elle, Self, Glamour, and Santa Barbara Magazine. In addition, she oversaw the news division at UC Santa Barbara, directing news operations and mentoring the team of writers.

Terra Trevor is an essayist, the author of two memoirs, and a contributor to fifteen books in Native Studies, nonfiction and memoir. Her articles and essays have been published and anthologized by a wide variety of literary journals and houses, including the University of New Mexico Press, the University of Arizona Press, the University of Oklahoma Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Poets & Writers, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, and Raven Chronicles: A Journal of Art, Literature and the Spoken Word. Her new memoir, We Who Walk the Seven Ways, is out now from the University of Nebraska Press. She has been writing and publishing for four decades. The first twenty years she wrote feature articles, personal essays and penned columns in magazines. In 1995 her essay won first place, earning a scholarship to the Santa Barbara Writers Conference where she gained the title of award-winning writer

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