IN PERSON: If you’ve ever shared an experience in a letter, a journal, a blog, an email or a conversation, you have stepped into the realm of the personal essay. In this course, through reading and discussing a mix of accomplished personal essayists’ work, you’ll glean ideas for how you might begin to tell your own stories. From the writing we will do each week between classes, you will share your work in progress with the group, and hear back about where the writing came alive for them. There will be some in-class writing prompts to help you generate ideas and possible starts, and time for some general Q&A about writing personal essays. You will learn that no moment, event, memory or experience is too small a frame to hold a story (a story only you can tell) that will touch a reader. You’ll leave with a collection of starts, drafts and resources for further writing, and a sense of how to locate the deeper resonances that live within your experiences and bring them to the page. | Facilitated discussion, Active Skill Learning.
Max enrollment: 10.
Location: Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd, Durham NC 27705
