WORKSHOPS • PROMPTS/CONSULTING • WORKSHOP ARCHIVE • TESTIMONIALS
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- Michelle Castleberry is the author of Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems
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WORKSHOP IS FULL (please email me if you’d like to get on the waiting list)
In this five-week workshop we will keep (and share) a daily journal. We will study the composition of the entry and its worth, the strangeness and beauty of raw material, and the relationship between confession and invention. What does it mean to record, plot, or sketch an unfolding day? We will discuss how an entry might grow into an essay, or a poem, or a story. You will leave this workshop bursting with ideas.
Note: entries can be dreams, grocery lists, notes towards a novel, letters to nobody, a list of current events, sobbings, pieces of poems, fictions or chicken scratch. Which is to say, this workshop is a multi-genre workshop. All forms are welcome (poetry, prose, hybrid, memoir, essay, flash, fragment, and everything in between).
This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on MONDAYS (January 20, 27 / February 3, 10, 17) from 9:15AM-12:45PM EST. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
Weekly reading and writing assignments will guide you. All levels welcome. Workshop is limited to 10 participants.
READING LIST
Kate Zambreno’s BOOK OF MUTTER, Moyra Davies’s INDEX CARDS, Franz Kafka’s DIARIES
Bruna Dantas Lobato’s BLUE LIGHT HOURS
Full payment of $585 is required to hold your spot. If you need to work out a payment plan please email me.
workshop is full (please email me if you’d like to get on the waiting list)
In this five-week workshop you will each write ONE ESSAY as we consider the many, many ways to nonfiction, to wonder, to question, to claim authority, to research, to remember. You will arrive with a single topic, and I will provide prompts each week for you to shatter, repair, undo, plant, unearth, and then replant your topic until something (fingers crossed) unexpected grows.
This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on Thursdays (January 23, 30 / February 6, 13, 20) from 5:15PM-8:45PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
Weekly reading and writing assignments will guide you. All levels welcome. Workshop is limited to 10 participants.
Selected writing from Eula Biss, Jenny Boully, Kiese Laymon, Moyra Davey, Yiyun Li, Rachel Zucker, Mary Ruefle and others
Also highly recommend THE LOST ORIGINS OF THE ESSAY & THE NEXT AMERICAN ESSAY (edited and introduced by John D’Agata)
Full payment of $585 is required to hold your spot. If you need to work out a payment plan please email me.
ESSAY WORKSHOP IS FULL / JOURNALING WORKSHOP IS FULL
PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU’D LIKE TO GET ON THE WAITING LIST
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- Hope Hilton is an an artist, writer, educator, & author of Walks
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