Registration is rolling until October 6 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due October 2 at 5PM EST).

$65 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

3 hour class: Monday October 16 6-9PM EST

So often nonfiction is framed by trauma, but what’s so wrong with rose-colored glasses…? Writers often talk about how humor can be used as a tool to tell hard stories, and I believe leaning into the romantic can be too. If you’re applying a romantic lens to your work you might:

Ask yourself what conventions of the romance genre you can borrow to apply to your life?

Consider which details you’ll use to build your world for your reader and develop your characters.

Figure out where that line between romanticizing your past and over indulging in fantasy is — this will help you avoid “purple prose” or unintentionally present yourself as an unreliable narrator (it’s important that you come off as “in on the joke”)

Romancing Your Life is a technique for showing your past self (and those that populated your life) some care, tenderness, and grace.

Minda Honey has a series of essays for Longreads on dating and politics and her writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, The Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and she was Louisville’s local relationship advice columnist for 3.5 years at LEO Weekly. Her essays are also in “Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger” by Seal Press and the Hub City Press collection, “A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South.” Her memoir, The Heartbreak Years, about dating as a woman of color in Southern California, is forthcoming from Little A October 2023 (Pre-order it now). She is represented by Kayla Lightner at Ayesha Pande Literary. She is the founder of the capsule project, TAUNT, an alt-indie publication for Louisville that elevated the voices of the unaccounted during the height of the pandemic and ended in late 2021.