We’ll read from the masters: Oliver Sacks and Joan Didion and do our own generative short exercises to explore how to find points of entry into personal experiences of loss.
• All writing levels and genres welcome.
• The writing you create in the class will help kick start your writing process, and give you tools for processing your grief.
• As a seriously ill patient as well as a caregiver for my mom, I channeled my grief into a book project and writing assignments (to help pay the bills and avoid going crazy) – often using humor.
• Leave the class with starting points for possible essays, stories, poems.
Big challenges can spark writing that is personal, meaningful and cathartic. The setting facilitates your ability to access memories and ideas and connect them to the page in a supportive environment. A student favorite is the exercise to “write about the worst thing someone said to you in your grief,” which can be darkly funny.
Read Mary Ladd in Health, the Agony and Absurdity Breast Cancer anthology; the Grotto’s 642 writing books, Healthline, KQED.org, Playboy, Extra Crispy/Time Magazine, 7×7, and San Francisco Weekly. She is co-author of The Wig Report, a humorous graphic novel about hospitals & hair loss, and won Litquake’s 2017 essay contest.
About the Grotto: We’re not your average writing school. Our classes are taught exclusively by working professional authors, with extensive experience in their subject–at the Grotto, only published novelists teach novel writing, and only published memoirists teach the memoir. It’s a distinct approach, and perhaps why we’ve been voted Best of the Bay Area by San Francisco Magazine. We emphasize giving you the tools you’ll need to take your own leap from dreams to action–such as our Emerging Writers student reading series, held quarterly at Book Passage in the Ferry Building, which offers a unique opportunity to read your work in public.
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• All writing levels and genres welcome.
• The writing you create in the class will help kick start your writing process, and give you tools for processing your grief.
• As a seriously ill patient as well as a caregiver for my mom, I channeled my grief into a book project and writing assignments (to help pay the bills and avoid going crazy) – often using humor.
• Leave the class with starting points for possible essays, stories, poems.
Big challenges can spark writing that is personal, meaningful and cathartic. The setting facilitates your ability to access memories and ideas and connect them to the page in a supportive environment. A student favorite is the exercise to “write about the worst thing someone said to you in your grief,” which can be darkly funny.
Read Mary Ladd in Health, the Agony and Absurdity Breast Cancer anthology; the Grotto’s 642 writing books, Healthline, KQED.org, Playboy, Extra Crispy/Time Magazine, 7×7, and San Francisco Weekly. She is co-author of The Wig Report, a humorous graphic novel about hospitals & hair loss, and won Litquake’s 2017 essay contest.
About the Grotto: We’re not your average writing school. Our classes are taught exclusively by working professional authors, with extensive experience in their subject–at the Grotto, only published novelists teach novel writing, and only published memoirists teach the memoir. It’s a distinct approach, and perhaps why we’ve been voted Best of the Bay Area by San Francisco Magazine. We emphasize giving you the tools you’ll need to take your own leap from dreams to action–such as our Emerging Writers student reading series, held quarterly at Book Passage in the Ferry Building, which offers a unique opportunity to read your work in public.
We’ll read from the masters: Oliver Sacks and Joan Didion and do our own generative short exercises to explore how to find points of entry into personal experiences of loss.
• All writing levels and genres welcome.
• The writing you create in the class will help kick start your writing process, and give you tools for processing your grief.
• As a seriously ill patient as well as a caregiver for my mom, I channeled my grief into a book project and writing assignments (to help pay the bills and avoid going crazy) – often using humor.
• Leave the class with starting points for possible essays, stories, poems.
Big challenges can spark writing that is personal, meaningful and cathartic. The setting facilitates your ability to access memories and ideas and connect them to the page in a supportive environment. A student favorite is the exercise to “write about the worst thing someone said to you in your grief,” which can be darkly funny.
Read Mary Ladd in Health, the Agony and Absurdity Breast Cancer anthology; the Grotto’s 642 writing books, Healthline, KQED.org, Playboy, Extra Crispy/Time Magazine, 7×7, and San Francisco Weekly. She is co-author of The Wig Report, a humorous graphic novel about hospitals & hair loss, and won Litquake’s 2017 essay contest.
About the Grotto: We’re not your average writing school. Our classes are taught exclusively by working professional authors, with extensive experience in their subject–at the Grotto, only published novelists teach novel writing, and only published memoirists teach the memoir. It’s a distinct approach, and perhaps why we’ve been voted Best of the Bay Area by San Francisco Magazine. We emphasize giving you the tools you’ll need to take your own leap from dreams to action–such as our Emerging Writers student reading series, held quarterly at Book Passage in the Ferry Building, which offers a unique opportunity to read your work in public.
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• All writing levels and genres welcome.
• The writing you create in the class will help kick start your writing process, and give you tools for processing your grief.
• As a seriously ill patient as well as a caregiver for my mom, I channeled my grief into a book project and writing assignments (to help pay the bills and avoid going crazy) – often using humor.
• Leave the class with starting points for possible essays, stories, poems.
Big challenges can spark writing that is personal, meaningful and cathartic. The setting facilitates your ability to access memories and ideas and connect them to the page in a supportive environment. A student favorite is the exercise to “write about the worst thing someone said to you in your grief,” which can be darkly funny.
Read Mary Ladd in Health, the Agony and Absurdity Breast Cancer anthology; the Grotto’s 642 writing books, Healthline, KQED.org, Playboy, Extra Crispy/Time Magazine, 7×7, and San Francisco Weekly. She is co-author of The Wig Report, a humorous graphic novel about hospitals & hair loss, and won Litquake’s 2017 essay contest.
About the Grotto: We’re not your average writing school. Our classes are taught exclusively by working professional authors, with extensive experience in their subject–at the Grotto, only published novelists teach novel writing, and only published memoirists teach the memoir. It’s a distinct approach, and perhaps why we’ve been voted Best of the Bay Area by San Francisco Magazine. We emphasize giving you the tools you’ll need to take your own leap from dreams to action–such as our Emerging Writers student reading series, held quarterly at Book Passage in the Ferry Building, which offers a unique opportunity to read your work in public.
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