Writing the Body

with Meghan Lamb

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Reading

Online

Open to all levels

6 Sessions

Start Date: February 12, 2023
End Date: March 19, 2023
Day of Week: Sunday
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
Member Price: $274.50
General Price: $305.00

Virginia Woolf writes, “Literature does its best to maintain […] that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear. […] On the contrary […] All day, all night the body intervenes.” This course will examine these bodily interventions in writing and explore the merits of engaging deeply and precisely with sex, aging, illness, bodily change, and bodily difference. We will also discuss the body-centered prose of Ottessa Moshfegh, Han Kang, Carmen Maria Machado, and other writers.

Registration dates:

December 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

December 6: Member registration opens

December 13: General registration opens

Meghan Lamb

Meghan Lamb

she/her

Meghan Lamb is the author of COWARD, Failure to Thrive, All of Your Most Private Places, and Silk Flowers. She is a lecturer at the University of Chicago and the nonfiction editor of Nat. Brut, a Whiting Award-winning journal. Go to http://meghanlamb.com/ for more information.

Most classes are offered at a general and member tuition rates based on instruction hours, with Hugo House members receiving a 10% discount on classes fewer than six sessions.

Early bird discounts are available during the first two weeks of registration and apply to both general and member tuition rates.

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