2-Week Life writing course with award winning Susmita Bhattacharya

Would you like to write about some important events in your life? Would you like to explore themes in life writing and personal essays? This course will help you to bring your experiences to life on the page. We will look at personal essays by Jo Ann Beard, Salman Rushdie, George Orwell and Jhumpa Lahiri among others to see how they penned their essays on the self and the world around them. We will experiment with language and form, and how to structure a personal essay or memoir such as writing a lyrical essay or in hermit crab style. Through weekly exercises, closer reading and discussion, we will peel back the layers to see what lies at the heart of a personal essay and hopefully produce some work of our own.