9-Month Program for Beginner to Intermediate Level Writers of Memoir & Autofiction with Michelle Kicherer and Guest Faculty, Starts Thursday, September 19th, 2024

This 9-Month IndieMFA Program Starts Thursday, September 19th, 2024 The class will meet weekly via Zoom (Thursdays, 4:00PM PST - 5:30PM PST / 7:00PM - 8:30PM EST) This IndieMFA program is limited to 9 writers. Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. This is a 9-month alternative to a traditional MFA program designed for Beginner to Intermediate Level memoirists and autofiction writers interested in using levity (weirdness, humor, metaphor, touches of the surreal, etc.) to tell stories that tackle hard topics.  About the Instructor Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer from California living in Portland. She writes book reviews and interviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master’s Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Rougarou, 8142 Review and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SE