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How can you craft a story from the real? This course will give you the skills, strategies, and support to create your own interview and research-based piece of writing (fiction or non-fiction). Students will hone the practice of listening, recording, asking questions and writing. We'll deep dive on dialogue, structure, and look at different strategies for making art based on interviews. We'll study seminal texts, and over the course, students will create their own piece of reality-based writing. We'll look at graphic novels, verbatim theatre (texts crafted from interviews), poetry, autofiction, photography and film. From the musical London Road, to Anna Deveare Smith's ground-breaking documentary theatre, to Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich's masterpiece novels of voice - all are crafted narratives based on people's real words. What might you investigate and create? We'll all work alongside each other, crafting, workshopping, and shaping your own project from the initial idea to the final project. We'll consider how to choose a strong overall topic, what makes a good question, various ways of gathering and notating material, and how to shape raw text into something that lifts off into story and art. Discover what's possible when you work from the material of real life.