Advanced Personal Essay

This workshop is for writers who have a good understanding of what a personal essay is, are open to exploring further its many forms, and are already working seriously in the genre. Our focus will be participants? writing, supplemented with assigned readings. The workshop is designed for self-contained essays, not book-length memoirs. Admission by instructor?s permission. Please submit essay or excerpt of no more than five double-spaced pages to laura.spencer@writer.org by January 9. Please do not pay the workshop fee before your application is accepted.