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Upcoming Classes

Shaping a Narrative Around Questions

Saturday, January 24, 1-4pm EST, $150 In this session, we'll talk about how to shape a personal essay—or even a book-length memoir—around how you think and feel about an experience, as opposed to the chronological order of events. We'll focus on the internal arc (perspective, emotion, how our relationship to a formative experience changes over time), discussing examples and writing together.

Essay Collection Incubator

January-July 2026, $2,800 (payment plans available) Online via Zoom Generate, revise, and prepare your essay-collection (or memoir-in-essays) for submission—with guest authors and industry professionals, craft lectures and exercises, and multiple rounds of feedback. Apply by December 4

Telling Shared Stories: Writing About Other People in Memoir

Saturday, February 7 1-4pm EDT, $125 Online via Zoom Memoirists and personal essayists not only expose intimate details about themselves, but often about their families, friends, lovers, and enemies, too. But where’s the line between what’s yours to share and what’s not?

Independent Studies

The Braided Essay (independent study)

This independent study course will guide you through the process of writing a braided personal essay that incorporates research, criticism, and/or other external elements—from generating an idea and identifying the various strands, to developing those strands, and, of course, braiding them together.

Generative Essay Lab (independent study)

Whether you’re in a creative drought and need help coming up with new essay ideas, or you just feel like you keep repeating the same essay forms and want to try something new, this Generative Essay Lab is for you.

Finding Your Memoir's Structure (independent study)

In this independent study, a series of craft lessons and assignments will walk you through the process of translating the messy, complex, ongoing story of your life into a satisfying narrative arc for your memoir.