Updated July 2022:
I’m very excited to offer my first class through Catapult’s outstanding program of online writing classes. My six-week course on the personal essay will start on Tuesday, August 2nd. We have one student slot left. This is a highly generative class in which we will close-read some excellent short essays by writers like Grace Paley, Kiese Laymon, and Lydia Yuknavitch, and borrow some of their structural elements to write new essay drafts of our own. For the full class info, click here.
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I’m also very much looking forward to teaching a four-week online Life Into Literature course for the wonderful new San Francisco writing space Page Street. Check back here in August for full details. This class is for writers just beginning to experiment with memoir and essay and will take place fully online, on Saturday afternoons in October 2022.
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Past Classes
For Fall 2020 and 2021 I taught Form and Theory of the novel for Stanford Continuing Studies’ Online Certificate Program in Novel Writing. You can read more about the program here.
For Winter 2019, I taught Writing About Spirituality for Stanford Continuing Studies. Course description: