“When I heard my 21-year-old grandnephew, Casey, was moving into Bushwick, I immediately wondered: Is it a safe neighborhood? Is this where the hip, artistic kids go now that they are priced out of Williamsburg?
What I really meant was: Is it safe for a kid who spent most of his life snowboarding in the mountains and surfing down the New Jersey shore? He’s not what I’d call a city kid. I am his only relative who lives in NYC, but was I silly to worry?” Read CALA Writing Faculty, Kate Walter’s, full article in am New York Here
Walter is teaching a great course this summer starting on June 4th. The course intro asks, “Were you ever the only person of color at an event? The only LGBTQ writer? The only senior? The only immigrant? The only disabled person? Editors want your voices and your stories. Editors want diversity on their essay and opinion pages.” Writing Out on the Edge: Making the Margins Marketable will reveal how to turn outsider status into a selling point. This nonfiction writing course will begin with questions of craft, covering topics like how to write a great personal essay and how to transition from personal essays to a memoir.
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