Next-Level Nonfiction: An Essay and Memoir Intensive
A two-day intensive designed for the essayist or memoirist who wants to take their nonfiction to the next level. Over two days of lectures and workshops, we will experiment with form, study the multinarrative, and map out essays and memoirs following the adage, "I contain multitudes." Conceptualized with women in mind, this course is for the writer who balances career, home care, community care, culture care, and other interests. However these spheres or roles intersect, there is a way to let them mingle on the page and use them so that written work bristles with confidence, clarity, and creativity. Whether you're pitching a fresh story idea or revising a travel essay, book-length project, or magazine feature, your writing will benefit from instructor Cinelle Barnes's diverse repertoire. You will leave the intensive with both focus and a writerly agility that makes your nonfiction work stand out.

Cinelle authored the memoirs Monsoon Mansion and A Way Home, the essay collection Malaya, and several essays in Travel + Leisure, Coastal Living, Southern Living, Newsweek, Oprah Daily, Buzzfeed, Longreads, and more. She is the editor of A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South, and served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir. Her nonfiction work has received awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts, and the North American Travel Journalists Association. She previously taught at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Sackett Street Workshop, Catapult, and Writing Workshops Dallas, and has coached several essayists and memoirists through successful proposal development, pitching, and publication.

*Scholarships available for women if the cost is prohibitive. Email for more information.