Writing Workshops

Form and Function with Theresa Lin

$545

8 sessions

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Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT July 7 to August 25, 2025

Online via Zoom

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While the facts in nonfiction cannot change, our structural decisions—to follow one scene with another or to move between the historical, literary, and personal—dramatically inform their context and impact.

In this course, we will chart the progression of ideas in works by Joan Didion, Joseph Mitchell, Rachel Cusk, Michael Ondaatje, Gary Shteyngart, James Baldwin, James Wood, and Annie Ernaux, among others. In doing so, we will practice reverse engineering existing literary structures that participants may adapt for their own essays or memoirs. Students will receive many opportunities to workshop their writing. They will also leave with a new set of techniques to incorporate in their practice as well as a community of new readers.

Level: Intermediate

This course is held online via Zoom.

Led by

Theresa Lin

Theresa Lin

Theresa Lin received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship for an excerpt of her novel manuscript and an Undergraduate Writing Program teaching Fellowship. She is represented by Janklow & Nesbit and teaches at The Cooper Union. Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming in LA Review of Books, Archway Editions Journal, Off Assignment, Oh Reader, Racquet, Storm Cellar, Truthout, the Smart Set, and Random Sample Review, among others.

About this series

Writing Workshops

We strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you’re a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you’ll find a perfect fit here.

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