Your assignment is to write an original short creative nonfiction piece, 3-5 pages, double-spaced (see the
Format section below). ‘Original’ means a new story, not a recycled story that you have written for
another class or that you have been working on, but a new one that you began during our class (it can be a
development of one of our writing prompts).
Your assignment should be a Short Memoir, which would tell about something from your life, told in the
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st person (I, Me), an important moment in your life, and that offers some kind of ‘point,’ either a coming of-age ‘epiphany,’ or a moral lesson, something that the narrator can look back on (with irony) now that
some time has passed.
