A 5-Week Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Wednesdays: January 8 - February 5, 6-9 PM
One definition of the word essay is “a short piece of writing.” Another definition of essay is “to try.” This five-week course focuses on trying as we generate essays that range in form, length, and structure. Each week we will read an essay together and then dive into a generative exercise to try to write in that mode. Our final week will be a workshop of one essay by each writer in the course. Readings may include Randon Billings Noble, Jeremy B. Jones, Kiese Laymon, Michael Paterniti, Jo Ann Beard; modes may include the lyric essay, flash nonfiction, braided essays, research-driven narratives. No writing is due before our first class, but students should be ready to share throughout the course.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Meredith McCarroll is a writer and writing teacher living in Portland. Her work has appeared in Salon, Bitter Southerner, Avidly, Southern Cultures, Still, Cutleaf, Cleaver and elsewhere. McCarroll is the author of Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film (University of Georgia Press). Along with Anthony Harkins, McCarroll edited Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (West Virginia University Press) which won the Weatherford Award and the American Book Award. McCarroll is currently at work on a book project that explores lineage and inheritance, reckons with claims to place and culture, and explores what we literally pass down through blood but also what we inherit through proximity. For more, visit https://www.meredithmccarroll.com/.
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