Writing Workshops
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This one-hour workshop is designed to help you generate new topics for personal essays and learn how to craft them into full drafts. It’s perfect for beginners or intermediate writers who are eager to expand their creative nonfiction writing practice.
Attendees will work through prompts to help them find everyday moments to write about, learn tips on how to turn them into scenes, use specificity and reflection to create impact, and how to transform mundane events into meaningful moments.
Attendees will:
Learn to transform daily experiences into engaging essays
Enhance your writing skills with focused exercises and prompts
Learn how to real moment into scenes using specificity and reflection
This workshop be running on Thursday July 30th at 10am EST. Join us!
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Join me on Saturday April 11th from 11am-noon (EST) for a beginner essay workshop.
Attendees will learn 5 basics steps/advice on how to get started in writing personal essays, from generating essay ideas, to where to begin and end an essay, to some basic craft suggestions around the art of personal essay and writing in general.
Through looking at examples of essays, and prompts to help attendees generate their own essay ideas, attendees will end the field trip with the confidence to get started in their own personal essay writing journey.
Teaching
I’m a Professor of Arts and Humanities at Humber College.
My academic studies have been interdisciplinary, with a PhD in Cultural History from the University of London, Birkbeck College and a B.A. and M.A. in Media and Cultural studies from the University of Western Ontario.
My postgraduate research has focused on the contemporary cultural history of war within the United States, and more recently has examined conspiracy theories in popular culture (I used to co-host a podcast on this topic called The UnCover Up that still runs).