In telling stories about the world around them and in drawing lessons from their lives, skilled memoirists and essayists offer their readers insight, artistry, self-critique, and honesty. Essays that really work are always about something bigger than their author. Not only do the most successful of such texts reveal something about the subject at hand and about the person writing them, but also about the one reading them.

In this workshop we will read the works of authors who elevate the personal voice to an art form, and taking inspiration from them, we will craft and workshop our own.

You will learn:

• what creative nonfiction is and what constitutes an essay
• best practices in editing
• to identify what's at stake in a text as a reader
• how to set stakes as a writer
• to incorporate research with an artistic hand
• how to be a better writer of nonfiction
• how to be a more effective and generous reader

Come write! You may surprise yourself.