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Crafting the Personal Essay

with Eva Feeley

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All in-person events are tentatively scheduled and may change. Please refer to the CMCL Online Events Calendar, the CMCL website, or follow us on social media for any and all updates.

Forget the Persuasive Essays you wrote in high school with its dozens of creativity-destroying rules! The Personal Essay is a wonderfully flexible form that we can use to record our most important thoughts, as time-honored authors have done for centuries. 

During the sessions we will discuss tips to create more compelling pieces, and we will share as many stories with each other as time will allow. Input and friendly, constructive critique will be encouraged. Together, we’ll explore and craft our own memoir, contemplative, lyric, and spiritual essays. By the end of the series, the essence of who you are will have emerged for your own deeper understanding of your life.

Please bring a pen and notebook as we will be writing in class.

Please make sure to provide a valid email address for sharing essays in between classes!

Eva Feeley, is a Sea Isle City writer and creative writing teacher. She is a member of Jersey Cape Writers, Beach Bards and Great Bay Gallery Poets. In 2008, Eva began presenting her very popular workshops in several genres of creative writing. She has presented at the New Jersey Writers Conference, and twice at the North Wildwood Beach Writers Conference. Eva has written and self-published two books: Listen To Me, Young Lady, a memoir, and Survivors of Snake Bites, a collection of her poetry.

You can follow her on her Facebook page, Eva Feeley, Creative Writing Services.

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