6-week ONLINE Writing Autofiction – begins 11.10.25

Dates: begins Nov 10
Instructor: Morgan Jerkins
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up Mon 7-9pm ET)
Fee: $650 ($625 for returning writers)

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

Start, finish, or polish your autofiction story in this supportive, genre-defying workshop in which we’ll explore the blurry space between novel and memoir that is autofiction. This popular modern sub-genre houses work from writers as varied as Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Elif Batuman, Alexander Chee, Teju Cole, Annie Ernaux, Sheila Heti, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ben Lerner, and Ocean Vuong, many of whom we’ll read in this workshop. Open to writers both new to autofiction and long familiar with it, this course will explore the origins and merits of this at-times contentious sub-genre and examine the craft unique to it. Students will read published examples, write to autofiction prompts, and workshop each other’s writing.

This workshop is open to writers working in fiction and nonfiction, and writers at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.

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Morgan Jerkins is the New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be my Undoing, Wandering in Strange Lands, Caul Baby, and the most recent, Zeal. A two-time National Magazine Award winning journalist, her work has been featured in the nation’s leading publications, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Atlantic, among many others. She’s taught at Columbia and Princeton Universities, The New School, and Leipzig University in Germany, where she was the Picador Guest Professor. She’s based in Brooklyn.