In this four-week course, participants will learn how to write personal essays that resonate beyond their friends and family.Through close reading of selected texts, participants will learn the difference between the situation and the story and exercise this knowledge through generative writing exercises.
Participants will practice using creative writing techniques in personal essay writing. Participants will learn how to create distance between themselves, the writer, and the experiences from which they write. Participants willreceive instructor and peer feedback.
This workshop is for personal essay and memoirists.
Having worked in conflict zones such as Iraq, the West Bank, and Ukraine, Alex Poppe depicts fierce and funny women rebuilding their lives in the wake of violence. She is the award-winning author of four books of literary fiction and the USA TODAY best-selling Breakfast Wine, a memoir-in essay about her wild ride through Iraq, recently named a first runner-up for the Eyelands Book Awards and a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the American Writing Awards. Alex’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, HuffPost, and elsewhere. Find her at www.alexpoppeauthor.com.
Price:
$200.00
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