FREE ONLINE CLASS

Meets on four consecutive Thursday evenings:

January 30, February 6, 13, and 20 from 6:30-8:00pm EST

This four-week writing workshop will lead students through the process of brainstorming, drafting, revising, and polishing a short personal narrative. Whether it serves as the seed for a larger project or as an end in itself, this opportunity to reflect upon and retell in writing a significant experience will help you develop your ability to say what you mean and better understand why it is meaningful to you.

In the class you will learn how to:      

• How to use freewriting and “looping” techniques to give your writing liftoff.

• How to develop and organize ideas

• How to revise and edit for clarity and impact.

Your Instructor:

Sally Hirsh-Dickinson spent 16 years as an English professor at Rivier University teaching American literature and composition. She has written personal essays for New Hampshire Home magazine and is the author of Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place.