Speculative Memoir: Making Space for the Imagined and Unexplained
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Are you speculative-memoir-curious? Learn how speculative elements can enhance your work and welcome your imagination back home!
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Showing v. Telling: Deconstructing the Situation & the Story
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Writers learn early on to "show, don't tell," but both are necessary. So, how much of each, and why?
The Writer’s Voice: Stretching Your Craft in Personal Nonfiction
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Uncertain about handling emotional nuances in your material? Start your journey of crafting a rich, flexible writer's voice
Ready, Set, Submit! Personal Essay Workshop
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Develop, write, and edit a publishable personal essay in six weeks, while building community.
Collage Memoir: Arranging The Ephemera
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Learn to find and tie together the theme in your vignettes, letters, diary entries and more, to create meaning, continuity and flow.
The Magic of Micro Prose: Find Your Story in 300 Words or Less
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Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.
Power Your Memoir with Mystery: How Curiosity Fuels Craft
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The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer
Revive Your Creativity: The Energizing Art of Playful Writing
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Stuck in a writing rut? Playful exploration will enliven your primary work and foster a sustainable creative practice over a lifetime.
Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Transforming Personal Essays into a Book
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What order? What structure? Which essays? What about previously published work? Demystifying how to transform your essays into a book.
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Writing About Grief, Loss & Trauma
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Unsure how to start writing about grief, loss, or trauma? Stuck midstream? Wondering how honest to be?
The Healing Power of the Artful Essay: Transforming Experience into Art
When we create images and scenes and shape our stories—transforming experience into art—we can also transform ourselves.
Capturing Life in a Flash: The Art of One-Moment Memoirs
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Write flash essays that convey the depth and breadth of your life stories.