Writing the Self: Small Mirrors, Mouths, & Movements

This 3-hour workshop asks that you write yourself—things you observe, feel, understand, and ways that you move through and experience the world.

Details

Here we aim to exalt the every day, to dissect the abounding, to say the things we might not otherwise say, to see where it takes us. This course is interested in the essayette, the cronica, the prose poem, or any other smallish iteration of the personal narrative. We hope to use these small vessels to take magnifying glasses to our memories, movements, and meditations.

What you will learn

• Writers will engage with several short-form pieces of narrative writing • Writers will consider how they might write in these short forms to write about their own experiences • Writers will be able to discuss what pieces of writing are "doing" to inform how they put together their own works • Writers will build new language and ways of interacting with their obsessions or things that they can't stop thinking about

Workshop takeaways

• Writers will finish the course having generated or began drafting at least two new pieces of writing • Writers will leave with a list of writing prompts and readings to continue work after the class finishes • Writers should be open to sharing work with the class when comfortable

What you will be reading

• Excerpts from "In the Dream House," by Carmen Maria Machado • Excerpts from "The Book of Delights," by Ross Gay • Cronicas from Clarice Lispector • More!

Additional info

This workshop will be recorded for the convenience of those unable to attend live. The recorded session will be emailed to participants the following day.