‘Even if you think you know what the story is, you don’t until you write it.’
– Melissa Febos
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.
This is a 10-week asynchronous (text and recorded video) course. You’ll receive precise, direct feedback on up to 9000 words of your writing and work towards an initial chapter or equivalent (up to 3000 words) for sharing or submission.
The course, designed for writers with some experience keen to explore the possibilities of life writing or build on work in progress, is hosted by writers.com.
Wednesday 4 February to Wednesday 15 April
Online and international (no live Zoom sessions)
Fee: $645/ $550