Idea to First Draft: A Personal Essay 4-Week Workshop with Samantha Ladwig, Starts Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

Starts Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Samantha Ladwig is an essayist and book reviewer based on a small island in the Salish Sea. Her writing has been published by The Cut, Literary Hub, Vulture, Bustle, Vice, BUST, Real Simple, HuffPost, and Vox, among many others. She is a two-time Centrum Artist in Residence ('24/'25) and a Tin House Winter Workshop '25 alum. A former bookstore owner, Samantha is currently working on a memoir-in-essays. Read an Interview with Samantha about Going from Idea to First Draft.  In this four-week generative workshop, participants will learn how to shape their experiences into essays that connect with readers, ultimately creating a solid first draft with knowledge of how to edit and submit their work. When done well, personal essays show how a moment, big or small, changed the writer. In this 4-week workshop, participants will learn how to do just that - mine their experiences