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The Art of the Publishable Personal Essay
with Marcelle Soviero
We will look at the art of crafting the personal essay, with an emphasis on building a narrative arc that fulfills the essay's purpose: to arrive at an enlightening conclusion. We will discuss the narrative persona, the issue of "situation vs. story," defining the essay angle, and examining the story question. All techniques are designed to help participants write essays suitable for publication.
Marcelle Soviero is the author of An Iridescent Life: Essays on Motherhood and Stepmotherhood and the co-editor of
This is Adolescence: Essays on the First Ten Years of Childhood. Her award winning essays have been published in numerous publications and radio programs including The New York Times, Brain,Child,
Salon.com, Eating Well, New York Metro,
Babble.com, Literary Mama, Upper East Side, Wilton, StepMom, Anderbo, Tiny Lights: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, Florida Review and featured on The Story on National Public Radio.
In August 2012, Marcelle became the Editor-in-Chief of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. Brain, Child, founded in 2000, is the only nationally/internationally distributed literary magazine devoted to mothering. Contributors have included Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Jane Smiley and Anne Tyler, best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich, and acclaimed writers Antonya Nelson, Alice Hoffman, and Susan Maushart.
