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SUMMARY:Personal Essay Writing: Advanced - ONLINE - Liza Monroy - 8 weeks, $499
DESCRIPTION:WHEN 8 sessions, September 19 - November 5\nOnline chats Mondays, 9:30-10:30 pm ET\n\nWHERE Online\n\nPRICE\n$499 ($475 for AvantGuild)\n\nCOURSE DETAILS\n\n\n// \n\nVIDEO: Meet instructor Liza Monroy.\n\nReaders and editors love personal essays -- but writing these first-person pieces can be deceptively difficult. How can we expand on our (often minor) personal experiences to achieve something with a more universal meaning? What can we do when we\'re not sure about how to end a piece? What about when we can\'t quite remember some significant details of a story we\'d like to tell?\n\nThis intensive 8-week online class is for experienced students who are ready to dig deeper and demand more from themselves and each other. We\'ll be looking at examples of published work from magazines, anthologies, and websites and discussing how they succeed. Students will generate and workshop short drafts of new ideas -- and work on revising longer work that has you stuck.\n\nIn this class, you will learn how to:\n\nIdentify what makes your experience compelling for others\n\nExplore the hidden narratives that can and should shape your work\n\nUse "ordinary" details and events to create extraordinary insights\n\nReshape your tale using the techniques of fiction while retaining the integrity of the truth\n\nApproach editors and submit your work\n\nBy the end of the course, you will have:Five short pieces to expand into essays and at least one complete personal essay.\n\nStudents who have taken this class have been published in:The New York Times, Modern Love, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Self, Salon.com, Runner\'s World, the San Francisco Chronicle, the London Times, and more\n\nAdmission RequirementsApply with a note to explain your interest in this topic and goals for the course. Please include a two-page writing sample.\n\nThe online classroom has several components:\n\nLessons: Access weekly lectures.\n\nHomework: Share your work and receive instructor feedback.\n\nDiscussion: Exchange resources and ask questions via discussion forum.\n\nChat: Join a weekly group discussion via instant message. Transcripts are available if you can\'t participate.\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR BIO\nLiza Monroy is author of the novel Mexican High. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Newsweek, Jane, The Village Voice, and Time Out New York. The daughter of a U.S. Foreign Service officer, she has lived, worked, and studied in Mexico, Italy, Holland, the Czech Republic, Greece, and the United States. Her writing has also appeared in anthologies including the New York Times The Best of Modern Love. She\'s been a travel writer for MTV and was recently awarded a residency by the Kerouac Project of Orlando. Visit her on the web at lizamonroy.com.\n\nphoto by Jeff Bachner\n\nTestimonials\n\n"Liza brings a wealth of knowledge. She suggested publications where our pieces would fit and has an address book of editors to die for. I sent my piece out the next day and it was published within a week." -- Tara Bishop\n\n  \n\n"The class gave me tools applicable to my whole life as a writer. It\'s like the course that keeps on giving!" -- Amy Nathan\n\n"I loved Liza\'s class. Her openness to share names and places for submissions was most welcome." -- Diane Singer\n\n"Liza\'s class was a gem. I gained invaluble insight and she was so full of knowledge and advice. She knows this market and wants to help you succeed." --  Amy Tucker Carroll\n\n"Liza\'s astute and efficient observations about material made for an engaging and beneficial class." -- Neil Gordon\n\n
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