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Friday, June 7 • 9:00am - 11:00am
Hey, I Can Be Fun! Reapproaching the Nonfiction Book Proposal

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Does writing a nonfiction book proposal rub you as a daunting, dry, and restrictive task? What if crafting the proposal could be approached as the opposite—as an act of nuance, discovery, and creativity? In the instructor's experience, drafting a book proposal was an opportunity to step away from the frustrations of writing, play with structure, and infuse "pizzazz" (an actual component of the proposal) into an idea that might otherwise not have become a completed book. In this class, the instructor will share excerpts from her own proposal, and we’ll start working on the sections that can go into yours. Please come with a solid idea for a nonfiction book or memoir.

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Megan Nix

Instructor
Megan Nix’s medical memoir, Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother’s Pursuit of the Truth, was published by Doubleday in 2023. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, and Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, where it won the Editor’s Prize. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Alaska... Read More →


Friday June 7, 2024 9:00am - 11:00am MDT
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