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In this course, we will look at essays from Best American Essays 2014 and discuss how they handle narrative and scene, how they create an arc, what role “persuasion” plays, how to get the reader’s attention and empathy, etc. During the first two weeks, we will consider ideas, make a few starts, and write pitches. In the final six weeks, each writer will workshop one essay. Each week, we will do a writing exercise. The goal of the course is to have a working idea of how a personal essay functions when we live in a world of “topics” and information.
About the instructor
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of a novel, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, a novella, The Last Repatriate, and two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get. He has been published in The New York Times, NPR, Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Witness, and elsewhere. He is the Fiction Editor and a Contributing Writer at The Good Men Project and a PhD candidate at the UH Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, and won the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction.
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