ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS

Spend a week on your writing by mining your photographs, documents, letters, or other papers as inspiration for daily writing exercises described in writing and posted on short videos. Using techniques the author used to write her award-winning memoir, The Body Papers, in this generative workshop, writers will use research and material outside of themselves to find new ways into narratives. Writers will post their writing daily by deadline to receive brief comments from the teacher and two writers in the course. Writers will have the opportunity to receive more substantive written feedback on a piece they turn in at the end of the week. For those new to writing, jump-start your creativity. For those working on book-length projects such as novels, memoirs, or essay collections or on stalled essays or short fiction, these exercises may illuminate new insights and approaches to revision. Writers with any level of experience are welcome.

OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS: On Friday, at the end of the week, we will have an optional synchronous meeting celebrating your work with a reading event.