Essays can come in many forms and draw from personal experience, observation, research, reflection, contemporary issues and more. This four-week workshop is designed to help you get started with essay writing. Together, we'll take a crash course in the craft of essay writing, read examples of the form, and generate new material with writing prompts.
Instructor: Lee Chilcote is an award-winning journalist, writer and author whose writing is published in VanityFair, Next City, Belt and many literary journals as well as in The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook, The Cleveland Anthology and A Race Anthology: Dispatches and Artifacts from a Segregated City. His poetry chapbooks are The Shape of Home and How to Live in Ruins. He is founder and former editor of The Land, a local news startup reporting on Cleveland's neighborhoods, and a founder and past executive director of Literary Cleveland. He lives in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland with his family.
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Details: Introduction to Essay Writing takes place Mondays January 9, (skip January 16), January 23, January 30, and February 6 from 6:00-8:00pm in-person at LGBT Community Center Greater Cleveland, 6705 Detroit Ave, Cleveland OH 44102.
Prerequisite: None
Genre: Nonfiction
Level: Emerging
Format: Generative and craft workshop with writing outside of class.
Location: This class takes place in-person at Lakewood United Methodist Church, 15700 Detroit Ave, Lakewood OH 44107.
Size: Limited to 12 participants (including scholarships).
Suggested Sequence: Follow this class with an intermediate level or all levels nonfiction course.
Scholarships: Two scholarship spots are available for this class for writers in Northeast Ohio. Apply by December 1.
Cancellations & Refunds: Cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the first class meeting to receive a full refund. Email info@litcleveland.org.