The George Washington University
Jenny McKean Moore Free Community Workshop
Spring 2015 – Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
21 January 2015 – 29 April 2015
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 Monday, 5 January 2015.
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, 27 January 2015.
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.
The university is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that does not unlawfully discriminate
in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable
law.
