Sundays 4-6PM over Zoom, plus 1 additional hour asynchronous instruction per week
10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (make-up class, if needed: 12/11)
$400 with financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)
Applications open August 15th. Apply by August 30th, 11:59pm, using the link below, including for financial aid.
Please note: if accepted, payment is due 9/6 by 5pm. 

Students will read, discuss and experiment with a range of nonfiction forms, including flash memoir; expanded/stand-alone memoir; personal essay/op-ed; portrait of place; profile and feature writing. We'll focus on building a toolkit for approaching any of these forms as we practice observing, questioning and note-taking; creating scenes; using dialogue; zooming in/zooming out; developing voice; moving around in time and structuring a non-fiction piece. We'll read exceptional work by writers with a range of voices, styles and backgrounds; we'll examine what makes these excerpts hum and how we can use these model texts as springboards for our own.

Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. Her column, "The Parent Trip," appears weekly in The Philadelphia Inquirer, and her work has also been published in WebMD, Poets & Writers, Broad Street Review, O, the Oprah Magazine and many other journals, magazines and anthologies, including the recent Best Short Stories of Philadelphia. She's a six-time Moth Story Slam winner and a longtime teacher of writing to people of all ages. Her books include Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). Her current project is a YA novel titled My Plural Is People.