How do you craft short nonfiction for maximum impact? By breaking rules, subverting expectations, and experimenting with narrative. Using in-class writing prompts, we’ll explore voice, structure, point of view, humor, and other entertaining tricks that can spice up any writing. Participants are asked to bring a short story about a real travel misadventure (700 words max.) in which a single moment prompts genuine revelation or change.
Jeff Campbell is a freelance book editor, author, and writing teacher. As an editor for over 30 years, he helps authors tell their stories and shape their manuscripts in a wide variety of genres. For a dozen years, he was a Lonely Planet travel writer. Most recently, he’s written three YA science books. His latest, Glowing Bunnies!?: Why We’re Making Hybrids, Chimeras & Clones (Lerner Books, 2022), was named a “Best Book for Teens 2023” by the New York Public Library and was an SCBWI Golden Kite Award finalist.
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