Writing the Everyday: Prose that Makes the Common Uncommon

REGISTER NOW    $25 | Nonfiction

Want to write nonfiction but worry your life isn’t interesting enough? Learn how ordinary things can inspire extraordinary prose.

Writers are often under the misunderstanding that trauma, major life overhauls, and wild adventures are the only subjects that make for moving nonfiction. But most hours of most of our lives are spent inside smaller, quieter experiences—and those too can be the topic of meaningful essays and even memoir. The trick is becoming the kind of writer who relentlessly pays attention to the “mundane” world, training yourself to see connections where others see nothing at all.

Come prepared to do the work. In this presentation, we will do writing exercises to help you transfer what you notice about your everyday life to the page, and we’ll examine others’ writing to see how ordinary things can become the building blocks of transcendent personal essays and poems. 

With discipline and over time, you will find you are never at a loss for what to write about.

 In this webinar you will…

• EXAMINE published personal essays and poems to see how other writers turn ordinary things into extraordinary prose
• LEARN concrete techniques that can be used every day to train your attention and make connections
• PRACTICE giving language to the things you notice
• GET INSPIRED with new ideas

This webinar is ideal for…

• Writers who want to write nonfiction but are unsure what in their life will be meaningful to others
• Writers who struggle to come up with ideas
• Writers feeling burned out after working on a long project
• Writers who want to develop daily writing practices.

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YOUR PRESENTER

Lindsey Deloach Jones holds a BA and MA in English from College of Charleston and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University. In 2021-22 she taught as the Writer-in-Residence at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She teaches writing online and in-person via WRITESHARE, the writers’ network she co-founded in Upstate SC, and other venues. Lindsey previously taught literature and fiction writing at Clemson University and served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry.

Her essays have been published/forthcoming in Split Lip, HuffPost, Under the Gum Tree, Motherwell, Paste, South Carolina Review, and Salvation South. She is a recipient of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and a finalist for Best of the Web.

As a writer who often locates herself inside the tension between seemingly opposed forces—the spiritual and the practical, the mysterious and the mundane, the Mother and the Artist—Lindsey likes to write herself out of (and occasionally into) tight spots. In this spirit, she writes a Substack called Between Two Things.

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