The Personal Essay – An Online Poetry Workshop Jaclyn Moyer

Saturdays, April 6, 13, 20, 27
10:00 ? 11:30am Pacific Time
Registration $180 ($160 Fishtrappers)
All ages and experiences are welcome

Is the registration fee an obstacle for you to attend this workshop? Fishtrap offers a limited number of scholarships to help with the cost. Contact Program Director Mike Midlo for more information.

In this generative workshop, we?ll delve into the rich and expansive form of the personal essay. Over the course of four weeks, we?ll read a diversity of works that exemplify the breadth and flexibility of the form, from James Baldwin to Ocean Vuong, Joan Didion to Zadie Smith. Using inspiration and tools gathered from these close readings, we?ll dig into our own lives and experiences and work toward the completion of a full draft of one personal essay by the end of the month.

Jaclyn Moyer is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family from Punjab to California, forthcoming from Beacon Press in March 2024. Her essays have appeared in High Country News, The Atlantic, Orion, Guernica, Fourth Genre, The Ninth Letter, The Normal School, and other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University, and lives with her partner and two young children in Corvallis, Oregon.