A personal essay is like a mini-memoir, and allows the author to articulate her most significant experiences, ideas, and inspiring stories in a brevity of words. In this workshop we will develop the practice and process of personal essay writing, then submit them to the magazines that fit with our stories. We’ll also work on creating powerful query letters to submit when necessary.
Ideal for anyone who would like to write a magazine article or short piece, polish it, and see it published!
Day & Time: To be announced each season
Workshop Two: “A Novel Approach” ~ Structure for Memoirs, Novels and Short Stories
Do you have a pile of “patchwork quilt pieces” scattered throughout your journals? Are you ready to start sewing it all up? This workshop is ideal for anyone who has a work in progress—a novel, short story or memoir and is ready to create and structure a story with compelling characters and powerful plotlines. In this twelve week session we will explore and develop all of the literary elements essential to fiction and creative nonfiction.
Day & Time: To be announced each season
About the Facilitator: Janet Lucy, MA, is the author of Moon Mother, Moon Daughter ~ Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming of Age (Fair Winds Press 2003) and has been a contributor to Mothering, Natural Solutions and Skirt! magazines. She is a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been reviewed and highlighted in newspapers and magazines. She has lived in Mexico and Costa Rica and is fluent in Spanish. Janet is the mother of two teenage daughters.