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Personal Essay
Essay is an audacious and willowy form, subjective in its essence, partaking of memory, observation, critical thinking, intuitive leaps, and plain research. This class is designed to deepen our understanding of what a personal essay can do and be. We will consider questions about voice, what it means to use personal material, and how to combine the individual and global point of view. Class will include writing, reading, and discussion.
Beginning Fall 2021, we will be adding select in-person classes back to our course catalog. The majority of our classes will still be offered via Zoom.
If a class says IN-PERSON in its title, it will take place in person at our permanent home in Seattle.
If a class says ASYNCHRONOUS in its title, it will take place on Wet Ink, our asynchronous learning platform.
If a class does not have a marker after its title, it will take place via Zoom.
Instructor: Sallie Tisdale
Class Type: 1 Session
Featured Writers, NonfictionStart Date: 04/25/2016
Days of the Week: Monday
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 15
$85.50
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Sallie Tisdale
Sallie Tisdale is the author of several books, including Talk Dirty to Me and Stepping Westward. Her many essays have appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals. Violation, a collection of essays, is being published this spring by Hawthorne Books. Tisdale is the 2013 recipient of the Regional Arts and Culture Council Literary Fellowship. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James Phelan Literary Award, and was a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Distinguished Writer of the Year. Tisdale is a long-time member of PEN and was a judge for the National Book Award in 2010.