Creative Nonfiction
Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the forthcoming memoir, No Son of Mine (April 2024), which was awarded a Kirkus Star. His story collection, The Rope Swing, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. His essays and stories have been published and anthologized widely, including in Still: The Journal, Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia, Best Gay Stories, and the Oxford University Press textbook, How Writing Works.
He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Jonathan teaches writing at New York University and in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
For more information, visit Jonathan’s website.
Featured Work
- Starred review of No Son of Mine, from Kirkus Reviews
- “Little Boys Hiding in Closets,” an excerpt from No Son of Mine, in Salvation South
About Jonathan’s Class
- Class format will be a combination of writing exercises and manuscript workshopping/critiques.
- Creative Nonfiction manuscripts, as well as critiques of classmates’ manuscripts, must be submitted before Workshop week; Jonathan will provide instructions and deadlines in advance.
- Students can also expect some homework before and during Workshop week, as well as in-class exercises.