Rewriting Your Life: A 5-week Online Multi-Genre Workshop

Though the formal constraints of poems, stories, and essays might be different, one could argue that the access points are not. You open the door to something remembered, something imagined, or something reimagined, and you begin to build the room on the other side. What shape does it take? What shape will you allow it to take? Those are the questions at the heart of this class, where we will refuse the sometimes-constricting labels of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and give ourselves permission to write and rewrite our lives in whatever form we choose. 

In this 5-week online workshop led by Devin Kelly, we will use both poems and prose as models of how to write and read across genres. Works by Ross Gay, Heather Christle, Eula Biss, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and many others will ground us in a more permissive and generous approach to reading and writing, pushing us to refuse pure definitions and allowing us to explore what it means to write into our lives, in whatever form that may take. 

If you are a poet, novelist, or essayist looking to both deepen your approach to writing and reading and remain open to possibilities of learning from various genres and forms, then this class is for you. We will discuss readings and write in response to new prompts weekly, and students will leave this class having received extensive, longform feedback about their own written work from Devin Kelly.

Mondays | Feb 2 – Mar 2 | 7-8:30 PM | $80-$300

** Last day to register is Monday, Jan 26 **