A 5-Week In-Person Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Wednesdays, April 29 - May 27, 6 - 9 PM
We are in truly uncharted waters in which uncertainty makes day to day life unbearable at times. But even darkness can be generative. This is a workshop in which we will explore four pillar essay types of the genre (the reported and researched essay, the personal essay, the braided essay and the persuasive essay) and how to use each form to write about topics of our contemporary, anxious time. Each class will include a craft talk, discussion on assigned readings and then prompt-guided writing time in which we will try our hand at each of these four modes. The final class will be a workshop. Two goals of the class will be to create drafts of publishable essays that can be placed on a variety of platforms and to form bonds among writers that last beyond the classroom and turn into working-writing relationships and/or a writing group.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Kea Krause’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, National Geographic, Wired and Slate, among other outlets. My piece, “What’s Left Behind,” anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 and The Best American Travel Writing 2016. In 2018, I was a panelist at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where I discussed melting permafrost, antibiotic resistance and my piece about the search for new life at the North Pole. More recently, my work has been included as notables in both Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 and Best American Food Writing 2023, and my piece “Take it Down and They’ll Return” was a finalist for a Non-Profit News Award. She also holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing. She was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and now she hangs out mostly in the Maine woods.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due two weeks prior to the workshop start date, at 9:00 a.m.
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