Learn How To Write A Powerful Personal Essay with Nicole Breit
Your Story Is In The Shape Workshop
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
Approach vulnerable material
(minus the overwhelm)
Take a deep dive into the lyric essay
Write a panel essay in three parts
(i.e. a triptych)
(a replay will be available if you cannot attend live)
Ready to discover how experimenting with short-form creative nonfiction can help you approach vulnerable material (minus the overwhelm)??
Only $47
(a replay will be available if you cannot attend live)
In this 90 minute workshop, you’ll learn:
- How experimenting with form and structure can help unlock your stories.
- What a lyric essay is and how this form empowered me to tell hard stories, transformed my writing and launched my career.
- How to write a powerful three-part lyric essay inspired by Monet Patrice Thomas’ “The Unfaithful Triptych.”
- Why shifting POV (yes, even in CNF!) can help writers manage personal material AND tell a captivating story.
- The answers to your questions about writing and publishing experimental short-form memoir.
At the end of our writing session, we’ll have time for questions and sharing.
Who is this CNF writing workshop for?
New and experienced creative nonfiction writers who want to:
- Experiment with new ways to shape their experiences into well-crafted stories
- Set aside dedicated time to re-ignite their creativity in a guided writing session
- Discover how form and craft can help them safely explore vulnerable material
- Learn 2 different approaches to writing 3 variations of the triptych essay
- Explore how shifting POV can empower them to tell their stories
Hi from Nicole
+ Janelle!
Nicole Breit is an award-winning author and writing coach whose mission is to help busy writers craft their best work and share it with the world faster than they dreamed possible.
In my experience, career breakthroughs follow creative breakthroughs… and big breakthroughs happen when writers get playful with form and craft.
Many of the discoveries I’m sharing in this workshop I learned by writing and teaching experimental short-form memoir. My courses are all about bending and blending genre and pushing the boundaries of form. They have helped countless writers place in contests and celebrate their first publication credits.
I hope this workshop helps you find creative ways to shape your memories into powerful essays editors, publishers and readers will love!
Janelle Hardy is a writer, artist and creator/teacher of a transformational memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking.
She’s also host of the Memoir Body, Healing Story (formerly the Personal Mythmaking) Podcast.
She’s a born and raised Yukoner and solo mother who has been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker in the hands-on healing arts fields for 13+ years and as an artist (writing, painting + dance) for 17+ years. Throughout that time she’s taught adults out of her living room, arts centres, universities and community colleges.
Janelle lives in Vancouver on Coast Salish People’s land: the ancestral, occupied and unceded traditional homelands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
After taking this workshop I’m so inspired and excited — the queer Asian American in me who has been wanting to tell real stories about my life but wasn’t sure how to is saying yes, yes, yes! Even just in the first 20 minutes of your talk, I’ve come up with multiple ideas I’m curious to play with.
~ Joy
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS TRAINING!
(a replay will be available if you cannot attend live)