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Meet THe Team
This class is writers of all genres looking to pull from their lived experiences and weave them into fiction, memoir/non-fiction, and poetry. We'll be doing some generative exercises to get into our malleable minds and see what memories come bubbling up to the surface, waiting to be held and delivered to the page. This is a way to look at how we felt (physically, emotionally, and intellectually) throughout various moments in our lives, and see what material might be of use to us in our literary endeavors.
"You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?" – Anne Carson, "Glass, Irony and God"
• In-Class Writing Lift: Medium
• Homework: Optional
• Workshopping Drafts: None
Heather Hasselle is a writer and educator in New Orleans, Louisiana. She spent two years as an editorial assistant at American Short Fiction and has attended various workshops, including the Tin House Summer Workshop in 2016 and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2021. She currently teaches art and writing through the non-profit programs Young Audiences of Louisiana and Community Works. She has fiction in Pithead Chapel, Nurture Literary, Joyland Magazine and The Harvard Advocate. She is at work on a novel, Dirt Don’t Hurt, based on a childhood spent at the dirt track races across the American South.
"Heather is fantastic and makes every individual feel valued and heard. The readings she selected for the class were incredible and thought-provoking, and the writing prompts tied in perfectly and helped me understand the genre better. Highly recommend taking any class with Heather!"
"Really grateful for the variety of perspectives provided both by our group and the writers that Heather selected. I feel like I have learned so much and that aspects of my budding style have been affirmed in so many ways!"
"Heather was a great facilitator and shared very useful and illustrative examples."
