Curious about personal essay writing?
Join us for a workshop about how to tell a story with a personal essay.
Join us on Tuesday, December 12th at 1 p.m. Eastern. Attend live or we'll send you a replay. Bring your questions!
Here's what we'll talk about:
- the personal essay, defined, and its parts
- how to explore and use ideas
- how to find a focus
- how to begin or refine a personal essay
- a few ideas about where to publish a personal essay
Can't attend live? Sign up and we'll send you a recording.
Meet Guest Instructor, Natalie Serianni
Natalie Serianni is a Seattle-based writer and instructor with work at HuffPost, Insider, Motherwell, MSN/SheKnows, The Manifest-Station, Seattle's ParentMap, Today's Parent, and MuthaMagazine, among others. Her essay, "Subtle Shifts," was included in our 2021 HerStories Project anthology, "The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink." She writes about grief and parenting (sometimes together), and has taught college writing for over twenty years.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the co-editors of Midstory Magazine and the co-founders of the HerStories Project.
For the past decade, the HerStories Project has published writing by and for midlife women. We've published five anthologies, led dozens of writing groups, and taught writing online to hundreds of women.