Crafting the Essay
2 Hours • with Anna North • All Levels
Available spots
Class Description
A great essay is a tiny window that opens on a whole world. In this class, we’ll learn how to create those windows. Through generative exercises, short readings, and discussion, we’ll examine what makes an essay work and how to translate personal experience or research into creative prose. Taught by a journalist and novelist, this class will also explore the role of the essay in a creative writer’s toolkit — how the form can be useful for fiction writers, poets, and memoirists alike, and how learning to write a great essay can help writers more effectively share their work with readers. This class is designed for beginners, but writers who have written essays in the past will also have the opportunity to sharpen their craft. ANNA NORTH is the author of four novels: Bog Queen, Outlawed (a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick), The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, and America Pacifica. North has been a reporter and editor at Jezebel, BuzzFeed, and the New York Times, and is now a senior correspondent at Vox. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Upcoming Sessions
Cancellation Policy
If you withdraw from a workshop TEN DAYS OR MORE before the start of the class: You'll receive credit toward another workshop (minus 10% transaction fee) OR a full refund (minus 10% transaction fee). The transaction fee is non-refundable for PVWW, so this is something we must apply to all refunds and transfers. If you withdraw from a workshop nine days before the start of the class up until 48 hours before: You'll receive a refund minus 20%. If you withdraw from a workshop less than 48 hours before the start of a class or after the class has begun: We cannot offer credit or any refund. If you are absent on the day of your workshop or miss it for any reason, we are unable to offer any kind of refund or credit. If we have to cancel a class you have paid for, you will receive a full refund, without the service charge deducted. For our full listing of policies, visit www.PioneerValleyWriters.Com, Policies page (under Home). To withdraw and receive a partial refund according to the above, please get in touch with us at admin@pioneervalleywriters.com
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