This course is designed to inspire and instruct students on how to write the literary longform non-fiction. Excellent non-fiction requires rigorous fact-based reporting to craft eloquent prose. In this class, students will learn to do both. They will build a spine of interviews, timelines, and sources, workshops, and craft story elements. The course focuses on going deep on a single subject and crafting one longform piece, with close reading of top non-fiction practitioners.
Distribution Area: LA
Prerequisites and Restrictions
If the course fills, you may email Jeannine Matt Pitarresi Journalism’s Program Manager, at jp16@princeton.edu to be put on a waitlist. Please include a paragraph explaining your interest in the course.
Other Information
Eliza Griswold is the Director of the Program in Journalism. She has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for more than two decades, where she has extensively covered religion, politics, and the environment. She is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. Her new book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, builds on years of immersive reporting to tell the story of a Philadelphia church and a community in crisis.
