The essayist Philip Lopate has said, “The reason I read nonfiction is to follow an interesting mind.” In this 8-week revision workshop, we will tighten our nonfiction drafts by concentrating on the twists and turns of our own interesting minds. We will focus on learning from each other’s observations, questions, and suggestions about details, organization, structure, sentence flow, and other elements of prose. And we will turn to some of history’s great essayists (Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and others) as well as contemporary writers (for instance, Ocean Vuong and Diana Goetsch) and consider some of the lessons they offer for our own works-in-progress.

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