Workshop leader: Carolina Murriel In this generative workshop, award-winning journalist and essayist Carolina Murriel shares her signature approach to structuring a memoiristic personal essay, centered on one extended scene from your life. Bring a central memory, come ready to zoom into the details, and leave with a solid outline or draft. This event is free …
Join our monthly Get Lit group to hang out with your writing community and do some sprinting! If you’ve never done writing sprints before, there’s only one rule: get as many words on the page as you can before 20 minutes are up. We’ll run three writing sprints—one full hour. So come to our Get …
If your weekday evenings are full, join us during the day at our staple Get Lit to hang out with your writing community and do some sprinting! If you’ve never done writing sprints before, there’s only one rule: get as many words on the page as you can before 20 minutes are up. We’ll run …
Stories hinge on credible, compelling characters. It doesn’t matter the genre—most contemporary narratives demand character-driven storylines. And for those writing personal essays, there’s no escaping the “I” on the page. Whether based in the writer’s real-life experience or completely invented, intimacy and psychological depth are what modern readers crave. The rub is not all details …