Thank you to the more than 1,000 of you who joined us this afternoon for a very special Narratively Academy seminar, a live conversation with
. We chatted about how to be fearless in your writing, how to cultivate an engaged audience on , and much more. It was so wonderful to see many of you chiming in at the end that you felt inspired to get past those feelings of hopelessness and go out there to make a difference in the world, one written word at a time!If you missed this one, just click play above to watch the full thing.
And if you’re new to Narratively Academy, this session is sort of the guest-speaker / lecture-hall component of our programming. If you’re interested in joining one of our more intimate, hands-on workshop classes and seminars, here’s a look at what we have coming up this spring.
Abeer Hoque will be back teaching another session of The Insider’s Guide to Writing Personal Statements and Applying for Grants & Residencies this month. If you’ve applied to grants, fellowships and residencies in the past but haven’t yet had success, this class will help you learn how to put your best foot forward and get that money!
Narratively co-founder Brendan Spiegel has 15 slots available for one-on-one personal essay editing workshops this May. If you have a draft of a personal essay and you’re ready for professional feedback, Brendan will review and critique your story, hop on a call to discuss edits with you, then review your revision and help you get it all polished up and ready to submit to publications.
If this free seminar has inspired you to start writing op-eds and articles about social issues this year, make sure to check out Kavita Das’s class, How to Write About Social Issues in Unprecedented Times. A Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, CNN and many other publications, Kavita also authored the book Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues. Basically, she’s *the* expert on how to craft this type of writing.
Do you watch political rallies or reruns of The West Wing and think, I could have written that speech better? Have you thought about broadening your writing career to include speechwriting for yourself or clients? Henrietta Williams, founder of Speakeasy Speechwriting, has over a decade of experience writing speeches for leaders in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. In Talk Ain’t Cheap, her two-hour interactive seminar, Henrietta will walk you through the basics of what makes a speech sing — and how to break into the business of speechwriting.
Caroline Rothstein will be teaching another session of her sold-out class, Deeply Personal: Writing First-Person Essays on Raw and Difficult Topics. It’s been so wonderful to see the writers in this small workshop class develop close relationships while they explore writing *those* kinds of pieces. You know, the ones you always want to write but that require a push to figure out how to tell them in the right way.
Another of our perennially popular classes, Katey Schultz’s The Fine Art of Deep Revision explores how revising your own writing can be efficient, productive and even fun — once you identify the concrete techniques that work best for you. Our two previous sessions of this class both sold out quickly, so grab a seat now if you want to get to work on revising your writing projects this spring.
At a time when too many voices in the LGBTQ+ community are being intimidated and silenced, we couldn’t be prouder to offer this very special class this spring. Bestselling author and New York Times essayist Claire Rudy Foster will lead a Pride Month queer writers memoir workshop, a generative class designed to help you dive into telling your own queer, gender-diverse or trans story with confidence, clarity and candor. This is a small class with just 10 seats.
The amazing Audrey Clare Farley is back to lead another brand-new offering for us: our first book study! In Reading Like a Writer, students will spend the month of June reading Matthew Pratt Guterl’s acclaimed and haunting memoir, Skinfolk, meeting up for deep analysis of the writing themes and approaches Guterl employs, plus craft exercises that will help you explore how to use these themes in your own writing. And the author will join the class for the last session!
Questions? Not sure which class is right for you? Don’t see what you’re looking for and want to suggest a different class we should offer? Want to teach a class yourself? Drop us a line: academy@narratively.com.
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