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The mb One-Day Workshop: Personal Essay Clinic
Course DetailsFace it: Your mother loves everything you write, your friends don't have a skilled enough eye to tell you what's missing from your pitch, and your writer friends are too busy with their own work to help you edit your own. You don't have the time (or money) to take a long workshop, but you need help rewriting, reshaping, and figuring out how to pitch your article. Introducing The One-Day Workshop. In this small class — limited to 10 students — you'll bring in 11 copies of a piece (up to 2,000 words, including an optional pitch letter) to be read and commented on by the class, critiqued by the instructor, and edited as heavily as the piece requires. The instructor will also recommend venues for which the work is suitable. Your pitch letter for the class will be workshopped as well. Reviewing other students' work offers an invaluable lesson, as well. Through others' examples, you'll learn how to turn the red pen on your own work and learn to edit yourself with a sharp editorial eye. The insight and knowledge that critiquing other students' work offers is an excellent learning instrument. In a small class, you'll learn from one of our master instructors how to edit yourself, what your work is missing, what it has too much of, and where it would fit perfectly for publication. No matter how much experience you have, every writer needs an editor. Let our teachers, writing veterans who continue to reign over the marketplace, be yours. Admission Requirements:Please submit a brief letter of interest that includes a work history, as well as a writing sample of less than 2,000 words. | ||
Instructor BioMeghan Daum's Courses No courses available at this time.  Meghan's articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, BlackBook, Harper's Bazaar, O, the Oprah Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Vogue. She has been a commentator for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and contributed to public radio's "This American Life" and "The Savvy Traveler. Meghan has taught writing at New York University and the California Institute of the Arts. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University's School of the Arts and currently lives in Los Angeles. photo credit: Marion Ettlinger |
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