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Meet THe Team
The personal essay is a form driven by the question, not the answer. Even so, the wandering central to the essay isn't aimless. In this class, we'll chisel into your essay ideas and drafts to pinpoint the question at hand, then discuss techniques to clearly parse your ideas for your reader. Together, we'll disassemble essays by writers like Jesmyn Ward, T Kira Madden, Roxane Gay and use writing exercises to (re)assemble portions of your own essays. This class is ideal for writers eager for discussion and interested in generating fresh work.
• In-Class Writing Lift: Medium
• Homework: Optional
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
Whitney Bryant holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work is forthcoming in Shenandoah and has also appeared in The Georgia Review, One Story, and Chapter 16, and she is the fiction co-editor of the online journal Atlas + Alice: A Magazine of Intersections. In order to support her writing habit, she has taught literature and writing to high school students in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia over the past fifteen years. She has recently completed a novel in stories. She enjoys exploring Nashville's arts scene and outdoor activities.
"Whitney was the perfect blend of encourager and teacher! She is also so skilled in bringing a class together."
"Whitney was fantastic at adapting to all of the different story ideas everyone had. Our group had a wide variety of genres and experience levels and she deftly found a link between every one of them and what we happened to be discussing at the time."
"I really loved Whitney's class! We were constantly encouraged to lead with curiosity, which I'll take with me outside of my creative practice."
