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You wrote this great essay but aren't sure if it's done yet or where you should send it for publication. Good news: the personal essay doctor is in! Veteran journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan will help you push that essay to the finish line. In this intimate (eight student max) one-day intensive, we'll workshop the hell out of your essay, help you polish it up and get it ready to send out the next day! We'll even send you a checklist of criteria for your essay to be great prior to our workshop session. You'll be well on your way to joining the ranks of the 40 Writing Pad Alums who have been published and have gotten paid for their work!
Note: Class will be limited to eight students.
Instructor: Erin Aubry Kaplan
Sunday, Nov. 17
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Cost: $125 (Includes snacks and tea)
Class is limited to eight students
About Erin Aubry Kaplan:
About Erin Aubry Kaplan:
Erin Aubry Kaplan is an award-winning essayist, journalist and columnist who has written about African-American political, economic and cultural issues since 1992. She is currently a contributing editor to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times, and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly columnist the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper's history. She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly and New Times Los Angeles. She is a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com, Essence, Black Enterprise, BlackAmericaWeb, Ms. and the Independent. She is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly, cutting-edge feminist magazine that launched in 2007. Her LA Weekly feature, "Blue Like Me" won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism. Erin's personal essays have been anthologized in several books, including "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press), "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons) and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday). The last book's contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2004. Her own first book of essays and journalism, "Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista", was published Fall 2011 by the University Press of New England (UPNE) as part of its Northeastern Library of Black Literature. Erin teaches creative nonfiction at the Antioch University MFA in Creative Writing program and is a journalism advisor at University of Redlands.
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LocationWriting Pad East (View)
688 S Santa Fe, Apt. 312
Los Angeles, CA
United States
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