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Personal Writing - A Workshop - September 2010
This intimate, intense, adult workshop in personal writing seeks to help you discover and frame the stories of your life, stories you may have thought about telling, struggled to tell or stories you may not even be aware of. These stories lie just below the level of consciousness waiting to be revealed, tweaked by a current event, a dream, 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 periods of spontaneous in class writing from seductive prompts followed by sharing, developing and revising your material. The search for voice is paramount. Long term 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 Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University. The workshop is scheduled for Monday evenings between 6 and 8 PM. at an office space on 72nd Street between Broadway and Columbus Avenue. Admission is by writing sample. The fee is $500 for 10 sessions. You can email me with any questions or submit your writing sample to me at pr4@columbia.edu
