8-week Personal Essay & Memoir starting wk of 9.14.26
Instructor: Meg Charlton
Begins week of Sept 14, 2026 | meets 1x/week| wknight tbd 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $900 | returning writers receive a $50 discount
A writing sample is not required (but welcome) for this class.
Through group discussion of student work, plus that of published authors, writers in this workshop will examine the art and craft of creative nonfiction. The focus will be on learning to understand and use a full range of literary techniques in order to tell a truly compelling nonfiction story. Topics such as the use of dialogue, the creation of scene, attention to style and how to craft structure from true events will be discussed. Participants will also spend time talking about the particular responsibilities that come with writing creative nonfiction. In-class writing prompts will be used to inspire and motivate students to produce new work.
This workshop is open to writers working on memoir and personal essays, and writers at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Meg Charlton is a writer based in New York City. Her debut novel VOYAGERS was published in May 2026 by Harper. Other work has appeared in The Yale Review, Slate, Lux, Atlas Obscura and Vice, and the anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and covered in Indiewire, Above the Law, and Australian National Radio's Future Tense. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She is also the co-author of the Substack Self-Helpings.