Handbook

The course will give you the opportunity to execute an ethically sourced publishable long form work of literary journalism that can stand alone or serve to build the foundation for a book project.

You will read and discuss a variety of provocative pieces of literary journalism from past decades, while also researching and writing a long-form article of your own based on in-depth interviews, direct observation of people and places, and selective use of secondary sources in a journalistic manner.

You will study the art of narrative journalism: the controlled delivery and interplay of character, scene, plot, perspective, dialogue and description; examining the craft's practicalities, including selection of topics, angles and locations, crafting a work of literary journalism of which you can be proud.