I have conducted, and am available, to lead writing workshops, at all levels in fiction and creative nonfiction. Special topics:
In addition to general topic workshops, I have led these special topics:
- Book-length workshop, critiquing novels, short story collections, essay collections, narrative nonfiction, biography, memoir
- Novel chapter workshop, focusing on the chapter of a novel as a key element of a book-length work, with a dynamic all its own
- Literary journalism, welcoming writers of personal journalism, personal essay, travel writing, food writing, arts writing, literary reportage, memoir with reportage
- The meaning of place, in fiction and nonfiction, with a look at how setting is more than just landscape, but a vital, multi-faceted aspect of a work of creative writing, often a character unto itself
- Home Sweet Home, fiction and nonfiction where home, in all its manifestations – a place we love, a place we yearn to leave, the essence of who we are, the crossroads of conflict, the locale of nurturing – is a theme in discussion and creative writing
Lecture topics, for writing communities or general interest:
- The Art of the Personal Essay
- The Art of the Interview
- The Art of the Profile
- The Art of Setting
- Creative Nonfiction: The Big Tent Genre
- The Uses of History in Creative Nonfiction
- How to Use Your Research in a Writerly Way
- Literary Inspiration
Lecture topics, general interest:
- A Jewish Writer in the Bible Belt
- My Unexpected South
- Why We Write
- Hometown Stories