Tell Me Everything A Four-Week Personal Essay Workshop

The story is already in you. This is where you write it.

Date: October 5, 2026

Workshop Leader: Leigh Hopkins

This four-week workshop is for writers at any stage who are ready to get a publishable personal essay out into the world. Each week, we’ll meet live on Zoom to read and discuss essays together, dig into things like voice and style and narrative arc, and then we’ll write together. Whether you’ve published dozens of essays or you’re finding your voice as a writer for the first time, you’ll leave with a complete draft and a community of writers who believe that your words matter.

You’ll have supplemental materials to work with between sessions, including suggested readings across a range of essay styles. Braided essays, narrative, descriptive, lyric, hybrid, political, persuasive…what do they all mean, and where does your story fit? That’s what we’re talking about. And, of course, you’ll have weekly assignments to keep the momentum going and get your story on the page. 

This workshop is for anyone who knows the pieces of their life have something important to say and is ready for the world to read it.