This workshop will help essayists of every skill and experience level to locate the writing risks their draft is asking them to take.
SUMMARY
This four-week online workshop starts on June 1, 2022.
Registration is $125.
Participation is limited to twelve people and every participant will workshop one creative essay no longer than 4,000 words.
HOW WILL OUR WORKSHOP WORK?
I will create a workshop schedule before the course begins, and three writers will post their work each week by 10am EST Monday mornings. After reading the work, the workshop participants and I will post our comments to that week’s discussion board, where the conversation will continue and build each day over the course of the week. In addition to these workshop discussions, we will have ongoing discussions where students can ask questions about craft, process, publication, and so forth.
I strive to keep workshop discussions positive and constructive. This course is open to writers of every experience level. Whether the essay is a brand new draft or something the writer has been honing for months, we're going to meet each essay where it is and discuss what opportunities it might unlock. The goal here is to lift everyone and their work to the next better draft. Each participant will bring a different skill set and perspective, and our collective feedback should aim to help you to see new possibilities in your work.
WHAT’S THE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE LIKE?
The workshop discussions will be text-based and asynchronous. To facilitate this, we will host them on Canvas, a web-based education forum. Participants may come from every corner of the world and work vastly different hours, but you will be able check in and out according to what works for your schedule.
The workshop is most effective when the discussion is active, so my hope is that you'll check in every day and to post as you have the time. Often, questions can be as useful--or more useful--than critique, as they allow us to delve into ideas about craft, genre, and purpose that transcend the experience of writing/reading any one essay and allow us to re-imagine the possibilities of the genre.
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WHO IS SIÂN GRIFFITHS?
Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, where she serves as a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Weber State University. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, American Short Fiction, and Booth among many other publications. She is the author of the novels Borrowed Horses and Scrapple and the short fiction chapbook The Heart Keeps Faulty Time, and her essay collection The Sum of Her Parts is newly out from University of Georgia Press. Currently, she reads fiction as part of the editorial teams at Barrelhouse and American Short Fiction. For more information, please visit sbgriffiths.com
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.