Persona and Writing the Self: Personal Essay Workshop (On Zoom)
Dates: 2 Saturdays, January 25 - February 1
Time: 1 - 3pm
Instructor: Tyler Mills
Ages: Adult
Genre: Personal Essay/Memoir
Price: $195
You can write about anything and make it interesting. The trick is letting the story you tell become a story of how the persona, the "I" of the essay, grapples with, discovers, or faces the unexpected.
This two-day workshop will focus on the craft of the personal essay, where you'll be invited to brainstorm and then draft original nonfiction, and then you'll receive feedback during a workshop where you can later revise what you've written. This workshop is geared toward writers new to the genre and writers working on memoirs.
About the Instructor:
Tyler Mills is the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poetry guidebook, Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets, appeared thus summer from the University of Akron Press. She is the author of the poetry books City Scattered (Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions 2021).
A poet and essayist, Tyler's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, the Kenyon Review, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center's 24PearlStreet and lives in Brooklyn, on part of the unceded homeland of the Lenape people.
Click here to learn more about Tyler.
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