Last Call For My Workshop

Memoir and Personal Essay class starts Monday Oct 28

This is a quick message to let you know that there are a few (like literally two) spots left in my upcoming personal essay and memoir workshop Making Memoir Matter. 

The class is on Zoom and for intermediate to advanced writers. It begins October 28 and runs eight consecutive Mondays 3pm to 5pm ET/12pm to 2pm PT. As an Unpseakeasy School Of Thought course, it is coed. (Not just for ladies.) 

Details below and also here (where you can apply). 

Making Memoir Matter: Personal Essay and Memoir Workshop

October 28 through December 16, 2024

with Meghan Daum

Mondays, 12pm - 2pm PT 

$1500 / Max 9 students

Here’s the thing about memoir and personal essay. Get it wrong, and you can be branded a solipsist, a whiner, a shameless exploiter of yourself and others, or, gasp . . . confessional. Get it right, and you can touch readers in ways they didn’t think were possible—and change the course of your writing career in the process.

This class will cover fundamental issues of craft and personal storytelling while also helping students take intellectual risks, tell bold truths without burning (too many) bridges, and transcend the merely personal in order to arrive at larger and more universal ideas. In lieu of written instructor comments, each student will have the opportunity to have a one-hour private meeting with Meghan on Zoom during the course of the eight weeks. And we’ll try to have a guest speaker or two!

Hugo barkerruptions possible.