Craft Seminar: Writing About Parents with Michele Filgate
Craft Seminar: Writing About Parents with Michele Filgate
2 Sessions: Sunday, November 17 + 24
2:00-3:30pm ET
Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate is a writer and the editor of the acclaimed essay collection, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster, April 2019), which grew out of Filgate’s widely read Longreads essay on her troubled relationship with her mother. Her next anthology, What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, will be published in 2025.
Writers spend many years unraveling their childhoods, and some of the most powerful essays and memoirs of recent years have examined the complexities of the parent/offspring relationship. In this class, students will read a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction addressing this topic, and learn techniques for writing about this subject in a nuanced and kaleidoscopic way. Through close reading as well as writing exercises, we will focus on how when we are writing about our parents, we're also writing about ourselves.
Workshop Highlights:
Students will read a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction addressing this topic
Students will learn techniques for writing about this subject in a nuanced and kaleidoscopic way
Students will participate in guided writing exercises.
1 full scholarship available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com
Michele Filgate is a writer and the editor of the acclaimed essay collection, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster, April 2019), which grew out of Filgate’s widely read Longreads essay on her troubled relationship with her mother, and includes essays by Alexander Chee, Kiese Laymon, and Leslie Jamison, among many others. It is a Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten Nonfiction book for Spring 2019. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Refinery29, Slice, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Salon, Interview Magazine, Buzzfeed, The Barnes & Noble Review, Poets & Writers, CNN.com, Fine Books & Collections Magazine, DAME Magazine, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Time Out New York, People, The Daily Beast, O, The Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, Vulture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Star Tribune, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications.
