The Art of Narrative Nonfiction — Live Workshop

Sale Price:$850.00     Original:$950.00

June 24-July 29, 2025

This live 6-week online workshop gives you the tips, tricks, and tools to elevate your narrative nonfiction using the techniques of fiction writing. Live instruction led by Greg Campbell will cover topics such as structuring your story, building real-life characters, interviewing subjects with an ear for authentic dialogue, diving deep into research, honing your power of observation, mastering experiential reporting, and finding your unique and distinctive voice.

🌟 Each 90-minute session includes in-depth lectures as well as notes and critiques of your own in-progress work, in a supportive, encouraging group setting.

🌟 Each participate will also receive a private one-hour 1:1 session with Greg (divided into two meetings, one 45-minute session partway through the course and a 15-minute debrief/wrapup at the end).

  • Please note: This workshop is intended for nonfiction writers with works-in-progress that they can share with the group in order to recieve feedback. Personal essays, works of journalism, memoirs, and books … as long as it’s nonfiction, it qualifies. Participants should have a work in progress (or a 1,000-word or less portion of a work) to submit for workshopping.

This workshop meets over Zoom every Tuesday from 4-5:30pm PST/7-8:30pm EST. Individual 1:1 meetings with Greg will be scheduled independently at a time that works for both parties.

Enrollment is limited to 10 participants, so lock in your spot today!

Meet Greg 👋🏼

In addition to writing everything from books to blogs, my career has included editing, mentoring, instructing, and encouraging emerging writers in the style I like the best — narrative nonfiction.

Since the early 2000s, I’ve been a visiting lecturer in journalism and creative writing at the University of Colorado - Boulder and Colorado State University. I led narrative nonfiction workshops for the Northern Colorado Writers Group and Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

And as a longtime newspaper editor at both a daily and a weekly (where longform journalism was the standard), I’ve edited thousands of articles while helping writers find their voice and structure their stories for maximum impact and readability, while maintaining the highest of journalistic standards of accuracy.

I’ve written narrative nonfiction for The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Salon, and The Christian Science Monitor, among many other publications. My books all have varying degrees of this style, each with their own unique twists and challenges. I’m eager to share what works for me in my workshops, online courses, and one-on-one consultations. I look forward to working with you!

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • It’s a style of writing that uses techniques commonly used in novels or fictional stories, but applied to factual true stories to make them more dynamic and interesting.

  • Yes … with caveats. While you don’t necessarily have to have experience in narrative nonfiction, this isn’t an introduction to writing course, so you should have experience in the basics of nonfiction writing, preferrably in journalism or personal essays.

  • Yes! The workshop is designed to give you personalized instruction and feedback on a piece you’re currently working on. Rough drafts are fine, but your piece should be more than just an outline or idea.

  • No more than 1,000 words. If you’re working on a book or longer essay or article, you’ll submit just a portion of the overall work. I’ll go into more detail about this in the first session.

  • Yes! This course is designed to be hands on, with live reviews and feedback on works-in-progress by all participants. Even if you are not being reviewed on a certain week, your colleagues will benefit from the feedback you can offer them, so live attendance is highly recommended. (That said, life happens, and sometimes absences are unavoidable. All sessions will be recorded.)

  • I love poets! But I’m not qualified to help you write poetry, so this course isn’t for you :)

Testimonials

  • Greg is a natural teacher, and I say that as someone who has also done the hiring for the Liberal Studies program at the University of Denver. ... [A]cross-the-board outstanding.

    Andrea Dupree, Program Director, Lighthouse Writers Workshop

  • I give him an ‘excellent’ rating and would go higher if I could.

    Anonymous workshop participant, Lighthouse Writers Workshop

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