Memoir Writing II

Memoir Writing II
Continuing to Write: Memoir Writing II

Chloe Yelena Miller received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry has been published in such journals as Alimentum, The Cortland Review, and Narrative. Her poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and in Narrative’s First Annual Poetry Contest. She is at work on a memoir that combines essay and verse.

Four Thursdays, Feb. 2-Feb. 23, 1-2:30 p.m.

Price: $100 ($80 members)

BOOK:

The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate

 Also recommended:

The Fourth Genre by Robert L. Root, Jr. & Michael Steinberg

Books and audio from the This I Believe Series

Literary Journals: Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre

While focusing primarily on editing, revising and organizing research and chapters, this interactive workshop will also offer some writing prompts. You are welcome to focus on previously drafted essays or chapters or use the prompts to begin new pieces. We will closely read selected essays from The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate. Students will receive feedback from peers as well as from the instructor. In the final class, we will discuss weaving together the essays and working toward a complete memoir, as well as strategies for publication.

If you’ve taken writing workshops before and have starting drafting creative non-fiction essays that can be used for a longer piece, then you are welcome to take this level II class.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Chloe Yelena Miller received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry has been published in such journals as Alimentum, The Cortland Review, and Narrative. Her poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and in Narrative’s First Annual Poetry Contest. She is at work on a memoir that combines essay and verse.

Four Thursdays, Feb. 2-Feb. 23, 1-2:30 p.m.