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Personal Essay Clinic: One-Night Workshop
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 yours. Introducing The One-Day Workshop. In this small class -- limited to 10 students -- you'll bring in a piece 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. 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. 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. In this workshop, Paula Derrow, Articles Director at Self (who assigns personal essays for the magazine), will edit and critique personal essays. Admission Requirements:Please submit a brief letter of interest that (including a work history) as well as a writing sample (less than 2,000 words). | ||
Instructor BioPaula Derrow's Courses No courses available at this time.  Testimonials Paula's course resulted in my being published in The New York Times' Modern Love column. Paula's suggestions inevitably take a personal essay from 'a good idea' to publishable. -- Liza Monroy, freelancer, novelist, mb instructor"Paula Derrow gets to the heart of the personal essay. She inspired me to finish essays I had been toying with in my mind for a long time, and I have submitted my first essay for publication. -- Glenn Michael Gordon, former editor, Reader's Digest online "I took Paula's workshop and was immediately impressed with her deceptively laid-back style. Her feedback was incisive and powerfully focused on the heart of each person's story. I wrote a piece shortly after the class that ran in the June 2006 issue of Runner's World. Thanks, Paula!" -- Bill Braine, editor and freelancer "Paula convinced me that what I was writing was not only publishable but also worth publishing. With her encouragement -- and unremittingly honest critique - I was able to hone pieces I've since placed in the NYTimes City Section, and the My Word (person essay page) of the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine. I can't commend Paula highly enough." -- Erica Rex "I'd recommend this class to anyone interested in developing their own authentic essay writing voice in a supportive creative environment." -- Anna Marrian, freelancer |
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