Participants from around the country and the globe in our ‘Journaling Through Catastrophe’ workshop share their interpretations of the “new normal” and their perspectives of a world that is paradoxically familiar but also very strange.
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In this five-week online writing course, participants will learn the art of the personal essay by dissecting structure (and how to bend it), voice (and how to find yours), other essential craft elements and pitching. Led by Marnie Goodfriend, this class will help experienced and new writers go from start to publish.
Many of us remember that concert, art exhibition or book that brought us relief, made us think or inspired our own work. In this one-day workshop, arts and culture journalist Eva Recinos will walk you through crafting pitches to begin or prompt writing about cultural topics.
Sometimes the greatest act of heroism is survival. In this free community offering, Danielle Broadway will guide participants on a journey to find the inner heroes within them. Accompanied by playlists, including scores from Marvel and anime films, the class will feature pop-culture prompts, self-care rituals, and a dedicated time to read, write and share.
This five-week course, led by memoirist Shonda Buchanan, will explore the genre in its multifaceted forms while discerning cultural perspectives such as gender, identity and ethnicity. Students will also find and hone in on their story, motif, plot points and develop several chapters by the time the class ends.
This workshop will support fiction and nonfiction writers completing a dystopian novel, a memoir about a personal involvement in a catastrophe or with work that delves into the dynamics of trauma. Taught by Eileen Cronin, the class will explore universal themes, truths revealed about humanity and contributions survivors bring to a world in which mass catastrophe is increasingly common.
Each participant in this free community offering led by Lillian Ann Slugocki will keep a guided public journal of at least 500 words for 30 days. The class will be structured like a Massive Open Online Class, so people can drop in any time, day or night. The journal grows organically as a conversation and a shared document of our days together fighting a pandemic.
In this five-week online writing course, participants will learn the art of the personal essay by dissecting structure (and how to bend it), voice (and how to find yours), other essential craft elements and pitching. Led by Marnie Goodfriend, this class will help experienced and new writers go from start to publish.