This workshop is full. 

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 on substantial essay, offering one another constructive criticism and encouragement along the way.