Workshop teaches 'true story' process for creative nonfiction, 9 am Oct. 26

Learn how to harness the “true stories” process to write creative nonfiction stories that are informative and compelling at a National Press Club professional development workshop at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in the Zenger Room.

Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the public. Club members must login in for the promo code. Register online.

Lee Gutkind will lead participants through a workshop that will highlight writing techniques like flash descriptions and inner point of view for your creative nonfiction work.

Copies of Gutkind's book, "You can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism to Everything in Between," will be available for purchase at this workshop.

The session is a revised and updated version of the program Gutkind presented in June.

Gutkind is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University and a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society.

He has written about writing true stories for the New York Times “Opinionator Draft” series and discussed his ideas on NPR, where he served as a story consultant. Gutkind has appeared on the "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, and is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the first literary magazine to publish narrative nonfiction exclusively.