Live Online: The Decisive Moment: Writing A Personal Essay

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10th July
11am-1.30pm

The key to structuring a great personal essay, is to be able to see where the decisive moment lies.

Much like a good photographer, the writer needs to develop an eye (and an I) who can reveal all the hidden layers of meaning in an experience and develop it into a story that is both rich in knowledge and understanding, and satisfying to read. In this workshop we’ll be considering how to find this decisive moment, and consider the difference between writing a situation and a story.

The session will be a mixture of exercise, example, and discussion and it will equip you to take a decisive moment from your own experience and craft it into the bones of a personal essay.

This course will be held on Zoom for 2.5 hours, starting at 11am and ending at 1.30pm on Saturday 10th July.

After booking, you will receive a Zoom link by email. This is a live online event only, and will not be recorded. To take part, you will need a computer or smart device and reliable internet connection.

If you do not receive an invitation link, or if you have any other questions, please contact us at info@londonlitlab.co.uk.

Course dates

10th July
11am-1.30pm

Course location

This is an online course

Cost

£35.00

Half-price place

There will be one half price place and one free place available to writers who are on a low wage. Please get in touch if you would like to apply for these places, stating clearly whether you want the free place or the half price place and giving us the reason why. Please write to info@londonlitlab.co.uk with Writing a Personal Essay as the subject line of your email, by 19th June latest.

Further Info

The course will run with a minimum of 20 participants. Any questions at all, please drop us a line at info@londonlitlab.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help!

About the tutor

Julia Bell is a writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck where she is the Course Director of the MA Creative Writing. Her work includes poetry, essays and short stories published in the Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, Mal Journal, Comma Press, and recorded for the BBC. Her most recent book-length essay Radical Attention was published by Peninsula Press.

Live Online: The Decisive Moment: Writing A Personal Essay