The Creative Nonfiction workshop is for writers of essays, memoirs, autobiography, nature writing, third-person narrative nonfiction (for example: biography, history, or true-crime), and first-person narrative nonfiction (for example: a travel piece, or an eyewitness account strongly supported by documentable facts). The instructor for 2009 was Kathleen Finneran, author of The Tender Land: A Family Love Story. Click here for faculty bio.

The material you submit with your application will be read and workshopped by your instructor and class during the first week of the Institute.

If you are applying to the Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Enclose your completed Summer Writers Institute application form (available soon), a $35 check, and a total of 25 typewritten,  hard-copy, double-spaced, and paginated pages of unpublished creative nonfiction.

• -Your writing sample should be work in progress -- writings for which you are seeking reader responses and suggestions for improvement.
• -Checks should be made out to Washington University.
• -Application deadline is May 7, 2010.
• -Address your envelope to:

Summer Writers Institute
Attention: Erin Presson
Campus Box 1085
Washington University
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130