Notice, Wonder, Arrange: Personal Essay, Feb 2024
🕯️A six-week workshop exploring personal narratives, lyric essays, and alternative forms.
🕯️When: Thursday nights, Feb 1st - Mar 7th | 6 - 8 pm EST
or
Friday mornings, Feb 2nd - Mar 8th | 9 - 11 am EST
🕯️Where: Virtual, live on Zoom. You are encouraged to attend all sessions. If you miss one, it's ok! Classes are recorded and emailed.
🕯️ $400 new students | $350 returning students (code STILLWRITING)
🕯️Payment plans are available | Enrollment is limited, and registration closes when class fills.
Notice, Wonder, Arrange is a creative writing workshop and a formula for discovery in personal narrative.
If you'd like to…
Generate pages of new writing
Read stunning essays, book excerpts, and author interviews that are relevant to your writing projects and goals
Discover, tune, and learn to trust your narrative voice
Connect with a community of writers
Receive individualized, helpful feedback on your writing
Learn and implement practical tools and techniques for revision
Get your creative process back on track
Write your first essay
Or maybe your hundredth
Find accountability, inspiration, and creative support
… Notice, Wonder, Arrange is for you.
How we spend our time together will vary each week but will include…
Guided writing sessions using innovative prompts and exercises to shake loose new material
Conversations reflecting on our unique writing processes and writing lives
Reading, learning from, and discussing personal narratives in a variety of forms
Workshopping each other’s writing in an encouraging, welcoming, craft-centered format
What you’ll find here…
Six in-class writing assignments / six fresh starts / the seeds of new essays in various forms
Individualized feedback, workshop notes on one of your essays from Kate and the group
Weekly opportunities to share your works in progress with the group during informal “check-ins” at the start of class
A collection of lyrical essays, craft essays, podcasts, author interviews, and more resources to keep your writing mind engaged and inspired throughout these seven weeks and beyond
Accountability, community, new writing friends
Week by week…
Week 1: Personal Essay Basecamp. What is this? Why do this?
Week 2: Central Questions & Knots of Meaning
Week 3: Significant Sensory Details
Week 4: Tension & Stakes
Week 5: A Primer on Form
Week 6: Artistic Vision Statements
No experience is required, but what might be helpful is a few half-finished essays, a notebook of poetry, a heart full of ideas, a propensity for storytelling, an interest in meaning and insight, a collection of vignettes (even if you’re not quite sure how they fit together), and an open mind. All participants will have the opportunity to have 5-10 pages of writing workshopped, which will include a group discussion as well as a workshop letter, line notes, suggestions for revision, and further reading (or watching, or listening) from Kate.