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Personal Writing: A Workshop. Beginning January 18, 2012
This intimate, intense, adult workshop in personal writing seeks to help you discover and frame in literary fashion the stories of your life; stories you may have thought about telling,struggled to tell, or stories you may not even know you have to tell. These stories lie just below the level of consciousness waiting to be revealed, tweaked by a current event, something you read, an emotion aroused by an encounter with a family member, friend or lover. Our vehicles are the personal essay and memoir. The classes will consist of reading each students work written from seductive weekly prompts followed by critiques aimed at helping you to develop and revise your material. The search for “Voice” is paramount. Long time projects will be welcome. There will also be reading assignments to turn you on and keep you moving – which along with helping you to develop your writing strategies is the broad goal of the workshop..
I am a prize winning fiction writer, essayist, memoirist and long time Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University (see phyllisraphael.com). The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday evenings starting January 18, 2012 between 6.30 and 8.30 PM at an office space on 72nd Street between Broadway and Columbus Avenue. Admission is by writing sample. The fee is $500 for ten sessions. You can email me with any questions or submit your writing sample to me at pr4@columbia.edu.
