WHAT

Bring your creative nonfiction essay or your idea for one. This course will support your project with a focus on craft, story development, editorial feedback, and a workshop section where everyone will get the chance to engage in the art of the supportive edit.

WHEN

We will begin with a short, optional, initial virtual orientation meeting at 11 am on Saturday, October 9.

Course classes will follow weekly after then across six successive Saturdays, 10/16 through 11/20.

WHO

Eight people max per group. (I will accommodate more than eight within another group with a new time, as needed.)

WHERE

At the virtual orientation, we will solidify the best place to meet weekly.

We'll be organizing our meetings and discussions through a group link.

COURSE FEES

$120 for the course (sliding scale options available, please message me).

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Testimonials:

“I cannot thank you enough for your judicious, careful, and amazingly insightful editing.”

–Jay Griffiths, award-winning author of more than six critically acclaimed books and fierce advocate of nature's remaining wild places

“You were an angel guiding fonts and yearnings, marshaling these odd-kin into brilliant stories and essays.”

–Bayo Akomolafe, a celebrated author, philosopher, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network.

“You've been such a great pleasure to work with—so unfailingly supportive and editorially astute.”

–George Prochnik, a celebrated author who has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The Lancet, the Jewish Review of Books and the LA Review of Books and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine.

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Private Consultation

If you prefer a private consultation about your project and developmental editing please do reach out. I offer a thorough review of your project and feedback, with an initial conversation, a thorough review, and a final call to review the feedback.