A writing sample is not required (but recommended) for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a 3-5 page sample.

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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Sarah Herrington is a writer, poet and teacher. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, LATimes,  Poets and Writers Magazine,  Tin House, Interview Magazine, Slice, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Entropy, Vol1 Brooklyn, Writer’s Digest, Yoga Journal and other outlets, and she was selected as one of eight emerging women poets by Oprah Magazine. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Always Moving (Bowery Books, 2011) and several nonfiction books, including OM Schooled (Addriya Press, 2012), Essential Yoga (Fair Winds Press, 2013), and was contracted to write and oversee production of the updated Idiot’s Guide to Yoga (Penguin/Alpha, 2013). Sarah also worked as editor/co-author on Wanderlust: Find Your True North (Rodale, 2015).

Sarah is the recipient of writing fellowships from New York University, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the Community of Writers, and earned an MFA from New York University where she was a Goldwater Fellow, an MFA from Lesley University, and a BA from NYU.