
Writing About Mental Illness 8-Week Zoom Workshop, Starts Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Starts Sunday, October 6th, 2024 Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Sundays, 6:30PM CST - 8:30PM CST. Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Taught by Jeneé Skinner, an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate who also went to the University of Oxford to study Renaissance Literature and the Italian Renaissance. Her work has appeared in the Catapult, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Additionally, she won Michigan Quarterly Review’s Jesmyn Ward Prize. She has received fellowships from Tin House Summer Workshop and Kimbilio Writers Retreat. Jeneé is an assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine. Her interests include swamps, haunted houses, folklore, family sagas, epics, and poetic prose. While there’s more literature and conversations happening around mental illness, it’s still a very isolating and unique experience. There are illnesses passed down through families, caused by trauma, or that seemingly lack rea