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8-week Master Personal Essay & Memoir – begins 10.9.25 – Dumbo

June 20, 2025 By Julia Fierro

Instructor: Nancy Rawlinson
Dates: begins Oct 9 | meets once a week | Thur 7-9pm
Location: Dumbo
Fee: $1100 | $1000 for returning writers

A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a 3-5 page sample.

Our Master Personal Essay & Memoir Workshop is a selective class aimed at writers looking to polish their work for publication. Class is taught by our most experienced nonfiction instructor whose students have gone on to attend top MFA programs, win prestigious awards and publish with both commercial and independent presses. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work and typed feedback from the instructor is included, as well as a private conference.

Writers should have extensive writing and writing class/workshop experience.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

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Nancy Rawlinson has been working as a freelance editor and writing coach since 2003, providing in-depth developmental feedback for authors of literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir. Recent books that she has worked on include books published by Harper, Picador, Scribner, Atria, Simon and Schuster, Knopf, Houghton Mifflin, Liveright, Chicago Review Press, Crown, and more.

Nancy started her life as an editor and writer working for magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, The Sun, Time Out London, and Madison magazine. She has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. From 2006-2008 she was a nonfiction editor at Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. As a writer she has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Jentel Artist Residency Program. She trained as a coach at the NLP Center of New York and lives in Brooklyn with her two sons.

Filed Under: Brooklyn, In person, Memoir, Personal Essay

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Upcoming Online Classes

20-wk VIRTUAL Manuscript Generator II (novels, memoirs, story & essay collections) – begins 10.8.25

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8-week Writing Sprints (all genres) generative class – begins 9.10.25 – Clinton Hill

8-week Master Fiction – begins 9.9.25 – Carroll Gardens

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