Advanced Non-fiction

This workshop is for students who are actively pursuing a non-fiction writing project, whether it be essays, a non-fiction book, memoir, or op-ed page pieces. Each week students share their work and it is critiqued by the rest of the class and the instructor. Students are usually allowed to submit three times during the semester.

Instructor's approval required prior to registration. Email a 3-5 page writing sample to hoke5@aol.com. Once approved call 646.505.5708 to register.

10 Mondays Oct. 8 to Dec. 10—6:30-8:30 pm
10 Thursdays Sept. 27 to Nov. 29—6:30-8:30 pm

Charles Salzberg is the author of more than twenty non-fiction books, including From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, and Soupy Sez: My Zany Life and Times, and has written for New York, Esquire, Redbook and The New York Times. He is also the author of the Shamus Award nominated Swann's Last Song, Swann Dives In, Swann's Lake of Despair, Swann's Way Out, and Devil in the Hole, which was named one of the best crime novels of 2013 by Suspense magazine. He is a Founding Member of the New York Writers Workshop. 

[OFFERED AGAIN in Spring 2019—check back for details]