Writing the Personal Essay: Looking Within
Writing the Personal Essay: Looking Within
You already possess all the knowledge and wisdom that you need to write brilliant and profound personal essays. You need only learn how to access your own personal well of hopes, dreams, fantasies, and imagination. Discover how to mine the life material that is uniquely yours and set it on the page. From the profound to the paradoxical, from the humorous to the surreal, discover how to sift through the family stories, dramas, traumas, and arresting memories and communicate your personal truth in a way that touches your readers’ hearts and minds.
Note: Eight two-hour sessions. All sessions are synchronous, live on Zoom at 6:00 PM (ET).
Students will have the opportunity to workshop their pages twice during the term.
Classes start Tuesday, September 20 and meet weekly through Tuesday, November 8.
Cost: $350 (general)
Early Bird: $325 (available until August 22)
Register: Brown Paper Tickets, or NYWW Paypal (no fee)
Dates: Tues Sept 20 through Tuesday Nov 8
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Instructor Information:
Vicky Oliver is the author of six “how-to” books for the stressed-out white-collar professional, including Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots (Sourcebooks, 2008), 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks, 2005), and How to Live like a Millionaire (Without Having to be One) (Skyhorse, 2015). Her personal essays were published in Streetlight Magazine, Rubbertop Review, Griffel, and The Write Launch among others. Her historical novel, published under a pen name at an Indie press in 2017, won twenty awards. She teaches lively seminars on job-hunting, networking, and etiquette to college students and workers in transition. An active Brown University alumna, she received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School in May 2022.
You already possess all the knowledge and wisdom that you need to write brilliant and profound personal essays. You need only learn how to access your own personal well of hopes, dreams, fantasies, and imagination. Discover how to mine the life material that is uniquely yours and set it on the page. From the profound to the paradoxical, from the humorous to the surreal, discover how to sift through the family stories, dramas, traumas, and arresting memories and communicate your personal truth in a way that touches your readers’ hearts and minds.
Note: Eight two-hour sessions. All sessions are synchronous, live on Zoom at 6:00 PM (ET).
Students will have the opportunity to workshop their pages twice during the term.
Classes start Tuesday, September 20 and meet weekly through Tuesday, November 8.
Cost: $350 (general)
Early Bird: $325 (available until August 22)
Register: Brown Paper Tickets, or NYWW Paypal (no fee)
Dates: Tues Sept 20 through Tuesday Nov 8
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Instructor Information:
Vicky Oliver is the author of six “how-to” books for the stressed-out white-collar professional, including Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots (Sourcebooks, 2008), 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks, 2005), and How to Live like a Millionaire (Without Having to be One) (Skyhorse, 2015). Her personal essays were published in Streetlight Magazine, Rubbertop Review, Griffel, and The Write Launch among others. Her historical novel, published under a pen name at an Indie press in 2017, won twenty awards. She teaches lively seminars on job-hunting, networking, and etiquette to college students and workers in transition. An active Brown University alumna, she received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School in May 2022.
PAST ONLINE CLASSES
The Four Keys to Creative Writing: Style, Structure, Character, Scene
The Four Keys to Creative Writing: Style, Structure, Character, Scene
In this two-week course (four classes), award-winning author Robert Edward Anasi will explore the elements essential to all creative narrative prose. Each class will be entirely devoted to one of the four keys and include writing assignments, workshop discussion of student prose, and close readings of literary superheroes. So take a break from the beach and come pass through the doors.
For students of all levels.
Four two-hour sessions, two Mondays, two Thursdays, beginning Aug 23 thru Sep 2
Note: all sessions are synchronous, live on Zoom at 6:00 PM (EDT).
Cost: $265
Individual sessions: $66.25
Register: Brown Paper Tickets, or NYWW Paypal (no fee)
Dates: Monday Aug 23, Thursday, Aug 26, Monday Aug 30, Thursday Sep 2
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (EST); 3:00 PM (PST); 10:00 PM (GMT); 6:00 AM (EET)
Instructor Information:
A writer and journalist with over 20 years teaching experience, Robert Edward Anasi is the author of the The Last Bohemia and The Gloves. His newest book of creative nonfiction will be published in winter of 2022. He lives with his daughter in LA but plans to escape before the apocalypse.
Micro-constructions: The Art of Writing Flash Fiction
In this online workshop, new writers of flash fiction will get acquainted with the techniques and characteristics of this very particular genre of the short short story, while seasoned writers will construct multiple flash stories brick by brick. From the origin and the elements of a flash story to the practice exercises and the feedback the participants will receive, each writer will be able to work together with the instructor to weave innovative ideas into just a few words. At the end of the seminar, all flash stories will be considered for inclusion into a special bilingual folder, English and Greek, in the Bonsai Stories literary e-zine.
Six ninety-minute sessions, each beginning with craft talk, followed by a close reading of one or two pieces of flash, an exercise, then critique from participants but primarily the instructor.
Note: all sessions are synchronous, live on Zoom (12 PM EST/5:00 PM GMT/7:00 PM EET).
Cost: $195
Early Bird Registration: $170
Register: Brown Paper Tickets link
Dates: Six Thursdays beginning Feb 25, 2021 (Feb 25, Mar 4, 11, 18, 25, Apr 1)
Times: 12 N (EST); 5:00 PM (GMT); 7:00 PM (EET)
Instructor Information:
Vasilis Manousakis is a short-story writer, poet and translator, whose work has appeared in New American Writing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Barcelona Ink, Parentheses and Drunken Boat among others. He writes reviews and translates poetry and short stories for literary magazines and e-zines. He is a-co-founder of Bonsai Stories (Planodion) dedicated to Flash Fiction from writers from Greece, the US, and elsewhere. These flash stories have been collected in two printed volumes so far and a special tribute to 9/11 stories has appeared in a third volume, for which Dr Manousakis served on the editorial committee.
Six ninety-minute sessions, each beginning with craft talk, followed by a close reading of one or two pieces of flash, an exercise, then critique from participants but primarily the instructor.
Note: all sessions are synchronous, live on Zoom (12 PM EST/5:00 PM GMT/7:00 PM EET).
Cost: $195
Early Bird Registration: $170
Register: Brown Paper Tickets link
Dates: Six Thursdays beginning Feb 25, 2021 (Feb 25, Mar 4, 11, 18, 25, Apr 1)
Times: 12 N (EST); 5:00 PM (GMT); 7:00 PM (EET)
Instructor Information:
Vasilis Manousakis is a short-story writer, poet and translator, whose work has appeared in New American Writing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Barcelona Ink, Parentheses and Drunken Boat among others. He writes reviews and translates poetry and short stories for literary magazines and e-zines. He is a-co-founder of Bonsai Stories (Planodion) dedicated to Flash Fiction from writers from Greece, the US, and elsewhere. These flash stories have been collected in two printed volumes so far and a special tribute to 9/11 stories has appeared in a third volume, for which Dr Manousakis served on the editorial committee.
WRITING TO SAVE THE WORLD
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How do we use our writing to create real world change? How do we find our voices and get our message out? How do we use writing to touch, inspire, persuade, and provoke readers to action? Learn simple but powerful methods to get the ideas out of our heads and onto the page. We will consider different forms including Op-Ed, persuasive essay, spoken word, social media, art. Part writing, part activism, a lot of heart, this class aspires to use the written word to create the change you want to see in the world. Bring a notebook and a pen.
Online (Zoom—Live/synchronous sessions): Six Sundays, Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 2021 3-5pm EST (12N PST, 2 PM CST) Cost: $195 Early Bird Registration: $170 Register: Brown Paper Tickets link Dates: Six Sundays, Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 2021 Times: 3-5pm EST (12N PST, 2 PM CST) Instructor Information: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, and poet focused on issues of race, culture, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Women’s Media Center, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat, and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions. She has written three chapbooks. She teaches Asian/Pacific Islander American media and civil rights at University of Michigan, and creative writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College. She co-created a multimedia artwork on the H-1B visa for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Indian American Heritage Project online and travelling art exhibition. She is a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist, Marguerite Casey Foundation Equal Voice Journalism Fellow on Poverty, and Keith Center for Civil Rights Detroit Equity Action Lab Race and Justice Reporting Fellow on Arts and Culture. franceskaihwawang.com @fkwang |