Memoirist Stephanie Klein once quipped: “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” In this class, we will plumb the stories already within us, and discover innovative ways to tell them. Weekly in-class exercises will encourage honest risk-taking. We’ll consider drafting and revision, and discuss different strategies for getting your work into the hands of a wider readership. Throughout the course, we’ll look at various masters of the craft, reading seminal works by contemporary authors like Eula Biss, Sherman Alexie, Mary Karr, and David Sedaris. The most important texts for the course will be the work of students, which will be read with compassion as well as constructive critique.
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Writers Workshops
MEMOIR 2016-205
About the instructor
ERIKA JO BROWN is the author of the poetry collection I’m Your Huckleberry (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014). She’s a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She’s currently a PhD candidate at the UH Creative Writing Program, where she serves as a poetry editor, Unsung Masters editor, and reading series co-curator for Gulf Coast. She was awarded an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/M. D. Anderson Fellowship.
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