Life writing—literature that shares real-life experience—is more than recording what happened: it’s an act of meaning-making, a way of understanding who you are and how you became yourself. In this course, you’ll be invited into a process of exploration and discovery as you learn how to shape personal experience into compelling narrative. Drawing from memoir, autobiography, autofiction, personal essay, and boundary-crossing hybrid forms, you’ll explore how memory, imagination, truth, and voice intertwine to create work that feels both intimate and artful.
Together, we’ll examine the essential craft questions at the heart of life writing: how to find a narrative voice that feels rooted and alive; how to balance authenticity with shaping and structure; how to move fluidly across time; how to choose detail with intention; and how to give your work a form that serves both the story and the reader. Along the way, you’ll learn how to translate lived experience into writing that resonates beyond the self.
This course is delivered in partnership with writers.com.
10 weeks: Tuesday 30th September - Tuesday 8th December
From $550 (around £416 GBP)
Asynchoronous/flexible online course with intensive feedback