Essay Writing Workshops

Essays, Personal, Lyrical, Bodily 
In this essay writing workshop, you will tell your story. You will discover and explore your organic voice and share your personal, lyrical and body narratives in gripping and essential ways. This essay writing workshop will teach you how to not only compose your narratives, but also how to make your narratives compelling. This workshop will focus on how to create narrative flow within your essay, improve craft techniques such as pace and rhythm, find the best structure to suit your narrative, and revision. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

Modern Memoir 
Join us for the Modern Memoir workshop. In this essay writing workshop, you will explore personal experiences in narrative form. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

THE BEATS WORKSHOP
In this essay writing workshop, counterculture, experimentation, sexuality and rhythm mark the phenomena known as The Beat Generation. Seminal works such as Ginsberg’s Howl, Burrough’s Naked Lunch and Kerouac’s On the Road created national shifts that not only broke down aesthetic boundaries but also social boundaries. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

SPIRIT OF WRITING WORKSHOP
“Spirit of Writing” is a gentle introduction to the identity and declaration of being a professional writer, in a style designed to fire confidence and confirm a practice. No matter what level you have written to, no matter how long you have waited and no matter if you are starting again after a setback, you will finish with new belief in yourself and serious respect for what you bring to the table with your pen. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

MINDFULNESS & WRITING WORKSHOPS
Stories live in the body and the present moment.  In this course, we will use both writing as a way to check in more deeply with life and ourselves AND mindfulness techniques to drop deeper into our body narratives (breath awareness, body scans, how this can inform what we pen). By the end of the course you will have new tools for facilitating writing and drafts of poetry, fiction and/or personal essays. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

HYBRID: CRAFTING, PUBLISHING & PROMOTING HYBRID WORK
Hybrid writing is the study of and creation of works with a structural and aesthetic emphasis on crossing boundaries: redaction, lyric essay, prose poetry, intermedia and more. Join us and push beyond the parameters and into the edges of literary while learning which editors and venues are looking for hybrid works. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

LITERARY MATCHMAKING WORKSHOP
How do you find journals, editors and agents for your writing project? By exploring industry resources, you will learn how to research and choose the best venues for your work. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

BREAKING RULES: WHEN AND HOW TO LEAVE LINGUISTIC CONVENTIONS BEHIND
We will explore linguistic techniques and devices in both written and visual works such as The Road and Inglorious Bastards. Our focus will be to study and practice contemporary, surgical, linguistic rule-breaking so to discover our own “rebel linguists” and individual forms of creative voice. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

[EM]POWERING SELF IN FICTION, POETRY, CREATIVE NONFICTION AND HYBRID WORKSHOP
This gender and diversity narrative project takes its title from Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman but it does not stop at gender. This workshop  is open to all forms: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and hybrid. It is open to all genders, identities and backgrounds. In this course we will explore how progressive experiences with cultures, both our own and others, inform our voice in both the artistic expression of voice and the voice we give to self. It is our intention to give power over self, not others. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

THE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES WORKSHOP
In this submission guidelines course, you will learn from published authors, editors and instructors on how to follow the Universal Manuscript Format. You will explore why following individual journal guidelines is so very important to the success of your works. You will also receive behind the scenes advice from editors. Join published authors and editors from EckleburgNervous BreakdownBaltimore Review and more! ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

THE AWP SURVIVAL GUIDE: HOW TO HAVE FUN WITHOUT MAKING A COMPLETE IDIOT OF YOURSELF
This AWP Workshop is a self-directed primer for enjoying, surviving and getting the most out of your AWP experience. In this survival guide you will find veteran “How to” tips, promotional advice and links for helpful apps and practical resources used and recommended by Eckleburg instructors. Whether you are new to AWP or an ol’ pro, this guide offers a knowledge base you will find both practical and geared toward your successful experience. ENROLL FOR $5 A MONTH (Cancel Anytime)

ONE ON ONE WORKSHOP (ADDITIONAL FEES)
$.05 a word for prose. Submit your manuscript below for review. We will be in touch within 24 hours to discuss your project and match you with an Eckleburg editor. ENROLL FOR $.05 A WORD