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Mia Brabham Nolan

Piece by Piece: The Power of Personal Essay | 3-Week Online Writing Workshop

$229.00

In Latin, the word 'essay' originally meant to test, examine, or try out. To write an essay is an act of attempt; of experimentation.

In Piece by Piece: The Power of Personal Essay, writers will explore and understand a happening, occurrence, or event (personal or public) with words and through different literary devices, namely metaphor and perspective.

In each class, students will discuss an excerpt from an essay that exemplifies the device being used, then complete a writing exercise to build upon the piece of writing they begin in the first class.

By the end of the course, writers and the subject they are exploring will be both transformed and transformative by their own findings and truth.

Open to beginner and intermediate writers.

3 class sessions
Mondays, November 2-16
7p-9p ET
4p-6p PT
6p-8p CT

All class meetings will be held via Zoom. For more information on how to download or use Zoom, please click here. Please note: At this time, to protect the confidentiality of the space and sharing of students' work, classes are not recorded.

    Course Takeaways

    • How to craft a personal essay
    • Knowledge of the form and various writers of the craft
    • A handful of helpful writing exercises
    • Background in various writing devices, including detail, extended metaphor, and perspective
    • A supportive community and opportunity to grow relationships, as well as your writing 

    Course Expectations

    • Complete short readings in between classes and be ready to discuss.
    • Writing exercises that students can optionally share at the end of class, or workshop a portion of their working essay at the end of the course

    Course Skeleton

    • Week One: Purpose of Essay/Detail and Specificity
    • Week Two: Metaphor/Audience and Tense
    • Week Three: Workshop

    For Classes: We offer full refunds for cancellation with written notice up until 7 days before your class start date. From 6 days to more than 24 hours before class begins, we offer a 25% refund. If you drop a class less than 24 hours before the class begins or after it has started, you are ineligible for a refund.

    The Write-In Bundle is non-refundable once purchased. If you are unable to attend a session, your spot is held and you are welcome to attend any remaining sessions in the bundle period.

    By signing up for a class, you agree to our refund policy and code of conduct here.

    For Editing packages: Refunds are not offered after your story or manuscript is submitted for review.

    Meet Your Instructor

    Mia Brabham Nolan

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    Mia Brabham Nolan is an author and staff writer at Shondaland.com. Her debut book, Note to Self, is a short collection of personal musings that is in the hands of readers all over the world. Her fiction and nonfiction work has been published on Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, and in California’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction and Gardy Loo Literary & Art Magazine.

    When she's not working, Mia is most likely gathering a group of friends for karaoke, planning her next day trip with her fiance, Dan, or writing essays for her newsletter and blog. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter, or at bymiabrabham.com.