Uncontained: Finding Shape for Your Memoir | 6 weeks
Starts 10/13 | Sundays, 4–6 pm ET | Zoom
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In this hands-on, 6-week workshop, participants will experiment with various forms of memoir, including brief "flash" pieces, fragmented/episodic tellings, graphic/illustrated memoir, and pieces that use second- or third-person narration. Taking inspiration from convention-breaking writers like Dagoberto Gilb, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tim O'Brien, Ross Gay, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rebekah Taussig and others, students will apply these writers' strategies to their own work in the spirit of risk-taking, playfulness and discovery. Designed for both beginning and more practiced memoir writers, this class will include opportunities for close reading, discussion, generative writing and peer critique.
Class dates: 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17
Instructor: Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. Her books include Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). For nine years, her “Parent Trip” column appeared weekly in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and her work—features, essays, reviews and short fiction—has also been published in WebMD; Poets & Writers; O, the Oprah Magazine; Broad Street Review; Purple Clover and numerous anthologies, including The The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia. Hochman is also a storyteller, an eight-time winner of Moth Story Slam competitions (she tied for first place in the December 2022 GrandSlam in Philadelphia), and a teaching artist who works with teens, children and adults. For more than 30 years, she has taught poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir and storytelling in settings that include schools, writing conferences and workshops, juvenile detention facilities, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. She lives in Philadelphia.
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Starts 10/13 | Sundays, 4–6 pm ET | Zoom
Need financial aid? Apply here before adding this item to your cart.
In this hands-on, 6-week workshop, participants will experiment with various forms of memoir, including brief "flash" pieces, fragmented/episodic tellings, graphic/illustrated memoir, and pieces that use second- or third-person narration. Taking inspiration from convention-breaking writers like Dagoberto Gilb, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tim O'Brien, Ross Gay, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rebekah Taussig and others, students will apply these writers' strategies to their own work in the spirit of risk-taking, playfulness and discovery. Designed for both beginning and more practiced memoir writers, this class will include opportunities for close reading, discussion, generative writing and peer critique.
Class dates: 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17
Instructor: Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. Her books include Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). For nine years, her “Parent Trip” column appeared weekly in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and her work—features, essays, reviews and short fiction—has also been published in WebMD; Poets & Writers; O, the Oprah Magazine; Broad Street Review; Purple Clover and numerous anthologies, including The The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia. Hochman is also a storyteller, an eight-time winner of Moth Story Slam competitions (she tied for first place in the December 2022 GrandSlam in Philadelphia), and a teaching artist who works with teens, children and adults. For more than 30 years, she has taught poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir and storytelling in settings that include schools, writing conferences and workshops, juvenile detention facilities, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. She lives in Philadelphia.
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Starts 10/13 | Sundays, 4–6 pm ET | Zoom
Need financial aid? Apply here before adding this item to your cart.
In this hands-on, 6-week workshop, participants will experiment with various forms of memoir, including brief "flash" pieces, fragmented/episodic tellings, graphic/illustrated memoir, and pieces that use second- or third-person narration. Taking inspiration from convention-breaking writers like Dagoberto Gilb, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tim O'Brien, Ross Gay, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rebekah Taussig and others, students will apply these writers' strategies to their own work in the spirit of risk-taking, playfulness and discovery. Designed for both beginning and more practiced memoir writers, this class will include opportunities for close reading, discussion, generative writing and peer critique.
Class dates: 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17
Instructor: Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. Her books include Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). For nine years, her “Parent Trip” column appeared weekly in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and her work—features, essays, reviews and short fiction—has also been published in WebMD; Poets & Writers; O, the Oprah Magazine; Broad Street Review; Purple Clover and numerous anthologies, including The The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia. Hochman is also a storyteller, an eight-time winner of Moth Story Slam competitions (she tied for first place in the December 2022 GrandSlam in Philadelphia), and a teaching artist who works with teens, children and adults. For more than 30 years, she has taught poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir and storytelling in settings that include schools, writing conferences and workshops, juvenile detention facilities, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. She lives in Philadelphia.
