Note: This workshop is sold out.
If you’d like to be on the waitlist in case a spot opens up, or to get an early heads up for the next Lilly workshop, email yobarrelhouse at gmail dot com and put “Lilly Dancyger March 1 workshop waitlist” in the subject line.
Summary
This 8-week online workshop starts on March 1, 2021.
Registration is $250.
Participation is limited to 12 people and every participant will workshop two 4,000-word (or shorter) personal essays or memoir excerpts.
HOW WILL OUR WORKSHOP WORK?
Work is posted every week by 10am EST Monday mornings (a schedule will be sent out before the class starts), and each participant posts their comments to that week’s discussion board, where discourse grows during the course of the week. At the same time, there are ongoing discussions on other boards where students can ask questions about craft issues like building scenes or the revision process, as well as publishing questions like how to write a good pitch letter and where to send different kinds of work.
This workshop is open to writers at any and every experience level, with feedback that meets you where your work is—from building blocks to high-level fine tuning. Bring in essays you drafted just for this class, or memoir chapters you've labored over for years—bring whatever you want to work on, as long as you also bring an open mind and excitement to read and comment on other writers' work.
WHAT’S THE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE LIKE?
The workshops are run using the Canvas learning management system, a user-friendly, cloud-based education forum, which means, this is a virtual space. You can check in and out according to what works for your schedule within the parameters of the course.
Participants don’t have to be in a certain place at a certain time. They log in to the workshop space throughout the week, whenever it's convenient for them. We’ve had workshop participants from all over the world.
WHO IS LILLY DANCYGER?
Lilly Dancyger is an assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books, and contributing editor at Catapult. She's the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir forthcoming from the Santa Fe Writers Project in 2021; and the editor of Burn It Down, an anthology of essays on women's anger from Seal Press. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. Lilly lives in New York City, and she spends way too much time on twitter (where you can find her at @lillydancyger).
“What an amazing treat to be able to study with such a fantastic teacher with such expertise on writing and publishing for such a reasonable price. Thank you so much!”
— Workshop Participant, January 2019
REFUND POLICY
Since spots are limited to 12, we need to be kind of strict about cancellations and refunds. Here’s the deal:
You can cancel and receive a full refund up to two weeks before the workshop start date.
After that, we’re locked in and can’t provide a refund.