Fall Workshop 2025
Creative Nonfiction with Darnell Arnoult
Saturday, September 27, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST
For our Fall Workshop, Darnell Arnoult will combine her expertise on the craft of nonfiction with writing exercises to help attendees create several starts to pieces in an environment conducive to learning and fun to take with them when the day’s activities end. We welcome writers of all levels to join us for a day of creative fellowship.
Our Workshop Leader
Darnell Arnoult is a master of cross-genre writing. Her “Mining Your Timeline” workshop is a nonfiction writer’s paradise using a variety of questions, lists, and exercises to explore material from one decade of lived experience to another, to generate personal nonfiction narrative. Her novel Sufficient Grace received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her poetry collections include What Travels With Us, Galaxie Wagon, and Incantations. Shorter works have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MA (NCSU) and MFA (University of Memphis) and has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, Weatherford Award, Chaffin Award, and Hobson Award in Arts and Letters. She was writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University for 10 years. She now lives in Mebane, NC, where she offers a constellation of workshops and services for writers and writing communities. For information, visit darnellarnoult.net.
The workshop will include a break for lunch. Meal options will be made available following registration. Coffee, tea, soft drinks and snacks before the morning session are included.
Registration Fees: $85
Participation Limit: 20
Location: Grace Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall
131 W. Gettysburg Ave.
Oak Ridge, TN
(entrance is on the back side of the church; plenty of parking)
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2025
Workshop Hours: 9:00 a.m. — 3:30 p.m. (EST), Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Registration Form: Click here for the registration form. Deadline to register is September 1, 2025.
Additional Information: Contact Chrissie Anderson Peters at TheWriteWayToGo@gmail.com
This project is funded in part under an agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission.