LifeWriting 1-night
Next class is August 9
Writing from our lives often forms the basis for stories—all kinds of stories.
Whether your interests lay in personal essay, memoir, journal writing or even fiction, this class will help you tap into memories and ideas for you to mold into the stories you want to tell.
We’ll read published pieces and participate in some in-class exercises. Most of all, we’ll begin the process of finding some of the best material—taking stories and experiences directly from our lives.
This one night class serves as a great introduction to the six week class.
Writer’s Roadmap
This is an excellent course for beginning and intermediate writers interested in creative non-fiction and personal narrative. Especially those who may feel blocked or want direction on which stories to tell.
About the Instructor: Jack Helbig is a theater critic, arts writer, and essayist for various publications. He regularly writes for the Chicago Reader and the Daily Herald. He is also a playwright; his musical adaptation, Hotel d’Amour, written with Gregg Opelka (and based on Georges Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear), was first produced by the Buffalo Theatre Company in Chicago and has since been done around the U.S. He has written two plays, Thinking of Her Made Him Think of Her, an autobiographical piece first produced by the Talisman Theatre in Elgin, Illinois, and Kitten With a Whip, produced at the Cafe Voltaire, Chicago, and three ten-minute musicals (The Adventures of Princess Snapdragon, Dry Ice and Dinner with Douglas) (New Tuners, Chicago). He and Gregg Opelka also collaborated on My Night at Jacques’, a modern translation of two one-act comic operettas by Jacques Offenbach, and a new translation of Franz Lehar’s classic, The Merry Widow, which earned rave reviews from both of Chicago’s major dailies when it was produced last summer. He has been keeping a journal since he was in Mr. Kramer’s ninth grade English class at St. Louis U. High. He now working on his 60th journal.
Date/Time: Monday, August 9; 6:30pm to 9pmor
Tuesday, September 14; 6:30pm to 9pm
Price: Non-Member:$35; Member:$30