8-week Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins 5.14.25

Instructor: Nadja Spiegelman
Dates: May 14 | Wednesdays 7-9pm
Location: Soho
Fee: $850 | returning writers receive a $50 discount

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.

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Nadja Spiegelman is the author of the memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This, as well as four children’s books, including the award-winning Lost in NYC. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Newyorker.com, and more. She has worked as the editor-in-chief of Astra Magazine, at The Paris Review, and created a print cinema magazine for Metrograph. She is currently special features editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.