Gail currently teaches part-time at St. Edward's University and Austin Community College. She also participates in Texas Tech University's online writing program.
This is a beginning course designed to familiarize you with creative writing terms and their application in effective writing. In addition to introducing you to creative writing, the course encourages you to explore themes you can apply in classroom assignments and future work. The specific class format consists of some lecture, more discussion, writing exercises, and several types of workshops to help you revise your writing.
St. Edward's University - English 3306, Creative Nonfiction
In creative nonfiction, writers find the extraordinary in the everyday using literary techniques such as dialog, characterization, and scene to explore true events. This versatile writing style is expressive as well as informative, and has application in academic, literary, and business settings. Some genres of creative nonfiction include memoir, travel narrative, literary journalism, the lyric essay, and the short-short.
