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Thomas K. Dean Finding Your Place in the Personal Essay
Finding Your Place in the Personal Essay Who are you? Where are you? Is there much difference between these two questions? We make our places what they are. But our places also make us who we are. This fascinating dynamic is the basis of exploring place in the personal essay for this workshop. “Place” is the interactive web of the natural, built, social, and cultural environments in which we dwell. More than just sensitivity to setting, place-based writing explores the relationships between us as individuals and as a society to the world outside ourselves. In this workshop, we will explore how the purple sunset sky over a pond, or an old warehouse district full of broken windows, or a community action group meeting in a church basement, or even a shadowed corner in your house with the clock ticking in the background can be the basis for engaging, revealing, and compelling personal essays. We will critique works participants bring from home or write during the week, and we will do short writing exercises that we’ll share throughout the week. Biography
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