Personal Essay 1-Night
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Check out the Lifewriting 1-night class as an excellent alternative.
Aldous Huxley wrote: “Like the novel, the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.”
Join us to discover the joys of writing the Personal Essay. Through this literary genre you are free to communicate humor, knowledge, life experiences…just about anything that tells a story from your life or imagination.
In this one-night class, we’ll read published essays, discuss the craft of telling stories in essay form while working on our own drafts to share for feedback and potential publishing.
We’ll also talk about the business of getting your essays published, how to develop relationships with editors and how to pitch your pieces.
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: Ellen Blum Barish has a masters degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her feature articles have appeared in Newsweek, Self and The Chicago Tribune. She is author of a collection of award-winning essays based on her syndicated newspaper columns on women’s issues and family life. Many of her personal essays have aired as radio commentaries on WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio’s Eight-Forty-Eight program. She has taught writing at many Chicago-area universities including Northwestern.