Description
Dates: October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1, 8
Time: 4-6 pm Eastern, Virtual
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Personal essays are revelations. In this workshop, we will explore how a memoir-in-essays is an exacting and viable artform capable of contradiction, vulnerability, inquiry, grief, humor, memory, rage, longing, landscape and beauty, all at once. Talk about your heavy lifting.
Through generative writing, experimentation, and discussion, workshop members will develop 4-6 substantial new essays or hybrid pieces. We will take multiple contemporary essays as models, discuss revision strategies, and cover the various techniques for building essays and fragments into a cohesive manuscript.
In addition to their completed essays, workshop members will leave the course with blueprints for their manuscripts along with submission and publication strategies.
Christopher Locke is the author of 12 books and chapbooks. His latest collection of poetry Music for Ghosts (New York Quarterly Books) and memoir Without Saints (Black Lawrence Press) were both released in 2022. He received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, and grants in writing from Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize many times. Chris teaches English and creative writing at SUNY Plattsburgh in the Adirondacks.
