Nic! This is the text from the Lyric Essay workshop, just to give you an idea of style and length.
Please let me know what you’d like the quote/description to be + your dates/times + price (we do a 65/35 split) + your bio. :)
“Lyric essays have the power to soothe, to harrow, to persuade, to move, to raise, to rouse, to overcome.” ~Randon Billings Noble, A Harp in the Stars
In this six-week course, writers will explore the meaning of the lyric essay; how the autobiographical and poetic merge to create something larger than the sum of its parts. Various essay forms (flash, segmented, braided and hermit crab essays) will be introduced during the first four weeks of the course, and participants will develop one lyric essay to be shared in weeks five or six.
The course will include direct instruction, lively group discussion, literary readings as examples (one or two assigned per week), writing exercises, and in-class peer and instructor feedback. This course is designed for any participant with an interest in engaging and experimenting with literary essay forms.
This workshop will be facilitated by Nicola Holmes.
[see bio below]
DATES & DETAILS
NORTH AMERICA: Thursdays, October 2 - November 6 {6 weekly sessions}
4-6pm Pacific Time (Vancouver/Los Angeles) / 7-9pm Eastern Time (Toronto/New York)
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND: Fridays, October 3 - November 7 {6 weekly sessions}
9am-11pm AEDT (Sydney) / 12-2pm NZDT (Auckland)
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⏰ Please check the time in your time zone.
COST
Cost of the 6-week workshop:
CAD$450 / USD$350 / AUD$480 / NZD$530
Limited to 10 participants.
HOW TO REGISTER
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Adelle Purdham (she/her) is an educator, parent disability ally, and bestselling author of the memoir-in-essays I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024), which was named an Indigo and 49th Shelf ‘Most Anticipated’ Memoir & Biography and a 2024 ‘Nonfiction Book of the Year’ by The Miramichi Reader.
She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The University of King’s College. Her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle is a Sessional Part-time Faculty member at Trent University where she teaches creative writing. She lives and writes in her hometown, Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Ontario.
If you have any questions or difficulty registering, we’re happy to help!
Just write to heather@alisonwearing.com.