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SUMMER DATES
Two Sections:
Mondays, June 15-August 3, 6-8 p.m. ET via Zoom
Tuesdays, June 16—August 4, 6-8 p.m. ET via Zoom
This summer, we’re teaching The Magic of Memoir & Storytelling, an eight-week workshop devoted to reading and writing memoir, novels, short stories and personal essays. Writers can submit up to 40 pages, double-spaced, in 14 point type, for line edits, written feedback and class discussion.
The elements of storytelling remain the same whether you’re writing fiction or memoir:
Write in scene.
Write dialogue.
Observe granular detail.
Look for ways that your characters will surprise you.
Write what scares you.
Look for and find the pivot, the turn, in your story.
Don’t let the paint dry. Tap away at your keyboard until your piece, that draft, is done.
What to expect from this course:
We’ll read personal essays and short stories, as well as excerpts from Patrick Bringley’s memoir All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, Belle Burden’s, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Susie Boyt’s novel, Loved and Missed, Virginia Evans’ novel The Correspondent, Lauren Groff’s short story collection, Brawlers, Lily King’s novel, Heart the Lover, Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, and possibly Anthony Kiedis’ memoir Scar Tissue.
SUMMER DATES
Two Sections:
Mondays, June 15-August 3, 6-8 p.m. ET via Zoom
Tuesdays, June 16—August 4, 6-8 p.m. ET via Zoom
This summer, we’re teaching The Magic of Memoir & Storytelling, an eight-week workshop devoted to reading and writing memoir, novels, short stories and personal essays. Writers can submit up to 40 pages, double-spaced, in 14 point type, for line edits, written feedback and class discussion.
The elements of storytelling remain the same whether you’re writing fiction or memoir:
Write in scene.
Write dialogue.
Observe granular detail.
Look for ways that your characters will surprise you.
Write what scares you.
Look for and find the pivot, the turn, in your story.
Don’t let the paint dry. Tap away at your keyboard until your piece, that draft, is done.
What to expect from this course:
We’ll read personal essays and short stories, as well as excerpts from Patrick Bringley’s memoir All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, Belle Burden’s, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Susie Boyt’s novel, Loved and Missed, Virginia Evans’ novel The Correspondent, Lauren Groff’s short story collection, Brawlers, Lily King’s novel, Heart the Lover, Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, and possibly Anthony Kiedis’ memoir Scar Tissue.