The George Washington University
Jenny McKean Moore Free Community Workshop
Fall 2014 – Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
10 September 2014 – 10 December
2014
Led by Brando Skyhorse
Come and take part in a semester-long creative nonfiction
workshop! To apply, you do not need academic qualifications or
publications. The class will include
some readings of published writings (primarily memoir and the personal essay),
but will mainly be a roundtable critique of work submitted by class
members. There are no fees to
participate in the class, but you will be responsible for making enough copies
of your stories for all fifteen participants.
Students at Consortium schools (including GWU) are not eligible.
To apply, please submit a brief letter of interest and a
sample of your writing, 12 pt type, double spaced, and no more than 7
pages in length. Make sure you include
your name, address, home and work telephone numbers, and email address for notification. Application
materials will not be returned, but will be recycled once the selection process
is completed. Applications must be received
at the following address by close of business on Friday, 22 August 2014.
JMM Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Department of English
The George Washington University
801 22nd Street, NW (Suite 760)
Washington, DC 20052
All applicants will be notified by email of the outcome of
their submissions no later than Saturday, 30
August 2014.
Brando Skyhorse is the 2014-15 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Washington
at George Washington University. He is the author of Take This Man: A Memoir, and a novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, which received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award
and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. He has been awarded fellowships at Ucross and Can Serrat, Spain.
Skyhorse is a graduate of Stanford University and the MFA Writers’ Workshop program
at UC Irvine.
