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Writers Workshops

PERSONAL ESSAY 2016-308

Course #2016-308
Wednesdays Starting September 7 6:00 pm–9:00 pm running 10 weeks
Cost: $345 Instructor: Emily Fox Gordon
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Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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The personal essay is a uniquely playful and liberating literary form. It’s fun, but it’s not easy. More craft and conscious shaping is involved than people realize. We’ll read and discuss essays from Phillip Lopate’s Art of the Personal Essay and other examples of the form. We’ll do in-class exercises designed to help writers cultivate the ability to follow and record the undulations of their own thinking. Working in stages, we’ll each produce one substantial essay, offering one another constructive criticism and encouragement along the way.


 


About the instructor

EMILY FOX GORDON is the author of two memoirs, Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy and Are You Happy: A Childhood Remembered. Her first novel, It Will Come to Me, was published in 2009, and a collection of her personal essays, Book of Days, in 2010.

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