Writing Workshops

Finding Your Voice in Personal Writing with Callie Hitchcock

$345

4 Sessions

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Once a week Sundays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT May 31 to June 28, 2026

The Center for Fiction

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Finding your writing voice is half the battle of cultivating your voice; the other half is honing your style. This class is divided into Rants, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Personal Essays. We will read a piece of excellent writing in this category and study what makes it great, then we will write a piece in that category and workshop each other’s work. Each style of writing has its own aims and goals through which to flex and find your personal voice.

This course will allow you to explore and experiment with style while strengthening your confidence in your writing.

Course Outline:

Rants, Arguments, Op-Eds, and Polemics: What is something that really annoys you? What is a cause you feel passionate about? What is a piece of art you love? What is happening in your social world that you hate? Part of finding your writing voice is tapping into topics that energize you.
Poetry: Writing poetry helps us get out of our conscious mind and into our artistic brain that can make surprising and interesting associations. Poetic writing makes our writing more lively and unique and provides a creative space for the writing voice to feel looser and more intuitive.
Creative Nonfiction: Creative nonfiction is how we narrativize our lives and create meaning out of our experiences. This is where we turn the facts of life into art. Here, we will learn how to craft the most compelling story structure while using what we have learned so far about voice from the previous two sessions.
Personal Essay: Personal essays combine creative nonfiction, poetry, and argumentation. We will look at how to build a story with beautiful prose and an underlying, larger statement. How does the story you want to tell have a larger meaning about the world or about being human? How do you tell this story in a way that only you know how?

Teaching Style: This class will feature elements of reading and discussion, writing, and workshop.

Level: Introductory

This course is held in person at The Center for Fiction. Please note there will be no meeting on June 21st.

Led by

Callie Hitchcock

Callie Hitchcock

Callie Hitchcock is a graduate of the Master’s in Journalism degree at NYU in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program and has written on culture for the New York Times, the Believer, the Nation, the New Republic, LA Review of Books, and Slate. Her book of poetry Sun Stains was published by Finishing Line Press. She has a popular food blog called Food Fantasy and a podcast called Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock where she talks with nonfiction writers about a piece of their work.

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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