Essays, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Flash...

Writing Your Life

This Could Be Me, Very Carefully Listening To You Read Your Pages…:) xo

Hey there,

A reminder—I’ll be teaching two workshops with a focus on the personal essay…and/or any adjacent form by any name. Memoir, creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, the stories of your life….

How to get words on the page? How to find the heart of the work? How to keep going? Where to send it? There’s nothing like a good workshop to move the writing process along. The stories you live with matter.

A series of classes based on reading essays together is here.

This one is a relatively low risk, high reward way to jump into the art of writing essays, by reading work which has not only made it to publication but gone on to be included in this anthology, Best American Essays 2024. The conversation is always enriching, the process is fun, the community is great. I love this group! Room for a few more! Starting in November.

Essay writing workshop online is here.

And an essay writing workshop which meets in person, in Portland, Oregon, is here.

All of them can be found here.

Hope I might get to read your work, hear your ideas! I don’t always run these workshops, but I am for now.

xo