with Julie Lunde
In this four-week workshop, open to all genres and levels, we will study and practice a range of revision techniques. This is a hands-on class designed to strengthen your rewriting muscles and replenish your process toolkit; you will leave having discovered and applied several revision strategies, AND having one (or more!) pieces polished and submission-ready.
It’s often said that writing is 90% revision; all you need to join this workshop is the first 10%, an idea for a project and a gesture at its first draft (the rougher, the better). We’ll go from there!
Optional: Want an extra hour of one-on-one attention? Julie will provide written feedback on either part of a manuscript OR a query letter for a total of an extra hour of consultation time. Please choose this option in the drop-down menu when purchasing this workshop. This extra time will be scheduled directly with the instructor.
WHERE:
Online via ZOOM (link will be sent the week of the first class)
TIME:
4 Thursdays, 7-9pm EST
DATES:
February 15, off, 29, March 7, 14
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LIMITED TO 8 STUDENTS
For more info, call 203.227.3250 or email info@WestportWriters.org
About the Instructor...
Julie Lunde (she/her) is a multi-genre writer and editor with a particular focus on creative nonfiction, memoir, lyric essay, and formally innovative and hybrid work. She received her MFA in nonfiction from the University of Arizona and her BA in creative writing from Northwestern University. Her essays have been anthologized in Letter to A Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (Algonquin, 2022) and Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction (Outpost19, 2023); she was the prose winner of Western Humanities Review’s 2022 Contest and has been named a finalist in contests held by Essay Press, Harbor Editions, and Memoir Magazine. Other work of hers has been published or is forthcoming in Seneca Review, Fourth Genre, Passages North, Cream City Review, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere. She has previously taught courses at the University of Arizona and Publishers’ Weekly and worked for several years at Penguin Random House. Currently, she serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and is the writer in residence at her dog’s house. See more at julielunde.com.