Writers Week

Most often, creative nonfiction deals with truth and reality. But there is room in nonfiction for speculation, imagination, and invention. In this talk, I'll discuss work that moves beyond narration, reportage, and interrogation toward speculation: essays and books that build upon and expand the nascent genre of speculative nonfiction in innovative ways, work that imagines what else might be possible, speculating about alternate histories and realities, sometimes working with metaphor rather than the literal, suggesting new ways of seeing and thinking within the essay.