Writing the Body, Pain and Illness 8-Week Multi-Genre Zoom Workshop, Starts Thursday, September 5th, 2024

Class Starts Thursday, September 5th, 2024 The class will meet weekly via Zoom (Thursdays, 7:00PM ET - 9:00PM ET). Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Jenni Milton worked in book and magazine publishing at One Story, Oxford University Press, and Grove Atlantic. She earned her MFA at the Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, where she taught composition, fiction writing and literary journalism. In her final year of the program, she was Fiction Editor of the Pushcart Prize-winning journal Faultline. This new course in the Embodied Writing Workshop Series will help students navigate the challenges of writing through the body, pain and illness. The workshop will follow the blueprint set forth in Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, centering and honoring each student’s embodied experience, voice and story. How “strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes