Instructor: Meg Charlton
Dates: begins wk of Nov 11, weeknight tbd 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $550
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is not required 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 will examine the art and craft of creative nonfiction. The focus will be on learning to understand and use a full range of literary techniques in order to tell a truly 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 will also spend time talking about the particular responsibilities that come with writing creative nonfiction. In-class writing prompts will be used to inspire and motivate students to produce new work.
This workshop is open to writers working on memoir and personal essays, and writers at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Meg Charlton is a writer and screenwriter based in New York City. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets such as VICE, Slate, The Yale Review, Atlas Obscura and Lux, and been anthologized in the collection Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. She received her MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College where she was the recipient of the Creative Writing Award. Her debut novel VOYAGERS is forthcoming from Harper.