Instructor: Kathy Curto
Length: 11 sessions, $660
Fridays,  11:00 PM - 1:00 PM
No Class 3/23
 

Dani Shapiro reminds us: “Make no mistake:  This is not your diary.  You are not letting it all hang out.  You are picking and choosing every single word.”

 

Our focus in this class will be on the struggles encountered both with pages already written and with our new work: how to assemble disjointed scenes, how to bring coherence and insight to chaotic experience, how to make something with what we have. We will also look at moving a story forward including how to prepare a piece for submission if that is of interest to the writer.  We’ll do all this through writing and creative exercises, both in class and at home, as well as through a close reading of each other’s work and published pieces.

Kathy Curto teaches at The Writing Institute/Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair State University (MSU) and across the metropolitan area engaging writers of all ages.  She was recently chosen to serve as one of the 2016-17 Mentors in the MSU Engaged Teaching Fellows Program.  Her work has been published in the anthology, Listen to Your Mother:  What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in publications including The New York Times, Barrelhouse, La Voce di New York, Drift, Talking Writing, Junk, The Inquisitive Eater, The Asbury Park Press, Italian Americana, VIA-Voices in Italian Americana and Lumina. In 2006 she was awarded the Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at SLC and served as a 2015-16 MSU Engaged Teaching Fellow, as well. Kathy lives in Cold Spring, New York with her husband and their four children.  For more information visit FB page https://www.facebook.com/kathy.curto26 or website:  www.kathycurto.com

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