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Riding the Rails of Time: Disrupt Linear Time in Personal Essay

Genres: Nonfiction

Online

Open to all levels

1 Session

Start Date: August 13, 2023
End Date: August 13, 2023
Day of Week: Sunday
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
3 seats left!
Member Price: $81.00
General Price: $90.00

A personal essay generally has a timeline—the series of events as they unfold. As the individual who lived those events, you are aware of what happened before and after. In this workshop, learn to use flashbacks to provide context, add poignancy by flashing forward to show what you did not know at the time but will someday understand, and hop across multiple timelines to establish the connection between the personal and larger cultural narratives at play.

Registration dates:

June 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

June 6: Member registration opens

June 13: General registration opens

Minda Honey

Minda Honey

she/her

Minda Honey's essays have been featured by Longreads, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere, including the anthologies Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger and A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South. www.mindahoney.com

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