There are many ways to tell a story, and the essay is one of the most elastic forms in contemporary writing. Many of literature’s most daring writers of the self have used auto-fiction, memoir and personal essays to write about their lives and the world, from James Baldwin and Joan Didion, to John Jeremiah Sullivan and Maggie Nelson.

This workshop will discuss how to put ideas into practice, beginnings and structure, making the personal universal and learning how to extract the key elements of your own story.

Writers