8-wk Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins 9.18.24– Clinton Hill

A writing sample is not required but welcome for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.

Through group discussion of student work, plus that of published authors, writers in this workshop examine the art and craft of creative nonfiction, and learn to use a full range of literary techniques to tell a compelling nonfiction story. Topics such as the use of dialogue, the creation of scene, attention to style and how to craft structure from true events will be discussed. Participants also spend time talking about the particular responsibilities that come with writing creative nonfiction. In-class writing prompts are used to inspire and motivate students to produce new work.

This workshop is open to writers working on memoir and personal essays.

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Sarah Herrington is an essayist, poet, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love, Anxiety, Solver Stories and OpEd columns, the LATimes, SFChronicle, Tin House, Slice, NYLON, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Interview, Entropy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Poets and Writers magazine, Oprah magazine and other publications. She holds an MFA from Lesley University, is currently a Goldwater Fellow at New York University, and teaches at Loyola Marymount University.