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Learn how to craft compelling nonfiction stories, essays, and articles in the vibrant city of Los Angeles. From memoir writing to journalism, these classes offer practical techniques and insights to enhance your writing skills and engage readers with your unique perspective and voice.
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Online Essays and the Persona Narrator
The Writers Studio @ Virtual Classroom via Zoom
Do you live with realities that shock, delight, or implore you? Do you have expertise, confusion, curiosities, appreciations, or denunciations that you want to share in a way that others can hear? In this 6-week class, we will look at essays by James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Brian Doyle, Maya Angelou, and Rebecca Solnit to see how their use of a persona narrator and other elements of craft help them to welcome the reader. This class will be conducted...
From Cheng Du to Timbuktu: A Travel Writing Workshop
Do you love to travel? Want to make it your day job? Dive into the fast-paced and lucrative world of travel writing where you can sample local, exotic cultures and everything from five-star hotels to jungle treks. In this two day intensive, veteran travel writer Eric Hiss will show you what it takes to succeed in this competitive arena, from generating and pitching ideas that sell to structuring articles for diverse markets. Through an informative...
Personal Essay Punch Up
You wrote this great essay but aren't sure if it's done yet. Everything seems to be there: beautiful language, compelling conflict, and an interesting revelation. But something is missing, and you don’t know what it is. Good news: the personal essay doctor is in! Successful essayist Annabelle Gurwitch will help you push that essay to the finish line. She’ll help you play up the strengths and find the weaknesses in your piece, uncover opportunities...
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Personal Essay Clinic
Writing Pad @ 1132 Van Pelt Ave, Los Angeles, CA
You wrote this great essay but aren’t sure if it’s done yet or where you should send it for publication. Good news: the personal essay doctor is in! Successful journalist Natasha Vargas-Cooper will help you push that essay to the finish line. In this intimate (eight student max) one-day intensive, we’ll workshop the hell out of your essay, help you polish it up and get it ready to send out the next day! We’ll even send you a checklist of...
$175
Travel Writing: How to Pivot in Times of Uncertainty
Are you a budding travel writing enthusiast? Then this class is for you. This workshop will cover the elements of travel writing, including pre-trip research, using on-location experience to find an angle, telling the story, and engaging an audience. It will also include tips on how to leverage the learnings of this class in the current global crisis - with everything that’s going on in the world right now, more than ever, we need to find ways...
From Heartache to Literary Break: Memoir (1 DAY)
Writing Pad @ 688 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Have you ever thought about turning your life’s trials and tribulations into a NY Times bestseller but didn’t know where to start? In this one day class, successful memoirist Sara Benincasa will share her secrets for painlessly excavating your tumultuous past to craft a gripping page turner! Her fun, in-class exercises will help you write a kick ass story about the moments that have (temporarily) kicked your ass. She’ll cover crucial topics...
$90
Humorous Essay Workshop
Have you always wanted to write a humorous personal essay but you don’t know where to start? Or have you dreamed of seeing one of your essays published in the New York Times or Salon? Then this humorous essay workshop is for you. Using fun in-class exercises, we’ll help you transform your bad blind dates and visits from unruly parents into insightful, compelling revelations. Christopher Noxon (NY Times) will show you how to make your essay hilarious,...
From Ordinary Life to Extraordinary Personal Essay
Note: This is primarily a lecture class with some in-class exercises but not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Dreaming of publishing your essay in a top newspaper or magazine, but feel your experiences aren’t unique enough? You’re not alone. Most of us have never moonlighted as a pirate or worked for the CIA, but in this 1 Day Online Personal Essay class, 2x NY Times Modern Love Alum Sara Eckel...
Humorous Personal Essay 101
This is primarily a lecture class with some in-class exercises but not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Have you always wanted to write a humorous personal essay but you don’t know where to start? Or have you dreamed of seeing one of your essays published in the New York Times or Salon? Then this Online Humorous Personal Essay Class is for you. Using fun in-class exercises, we’ll help you transform...
Personal Essay and Memoir Workshop
Los Angeles Writers Group @ Location will be, Los Angeles, CA
Part generative and part critique, this bi-weekly memoir workshop welcomes writers who have already begun a memoir or essay project as well as writers who have a project in mind but have yet to begin writing. In addition to creating new personal writing, you will also have the option to share and get professional feedback on pages from your memoir or personal essays. We will also reflect on the work of successful memoir and personal writing through...
$45
NY Times Worthy Personal Essay
Writing Pad @ Online Classroom via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
Getting an essay in the New York Times is the crown jewel of personal essays in terms of bragging rights and future book deals. In this five-week Online NY Times worthy personal essay class, the instructor will share insight into securing this prestigious but elusive prize. Through fun, in-class exercises, an informative craft talk, and in-class feedback, you will learn secret techniques for approaching this essay, including the unspoken expectations...
Memoir 101
Writing Pad @ Online Classroom via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
Have you ever thought about turning your life’s trials and tribulations into a NY Times bestseller? In this one-day lecture-only online Memoir 101 Class, 2x NY Times bestselling memoirist Wendy Lawless will share her secrets for turning your life’s twists and turns into lively drama! If you’re a self starter who’s looking for all the tools to hit the ground running or if you’re a newbie who wants to get an overview of what memoir...
$95
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