Instructor: Wendy Horwitz
Monday - Friday
July 15 - 19
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

In this workshop, we’ll create personal essays about the body, health, disability, encounters with health professionals, and related themes. How do we transform our stories into written narratives that communicate, evoke emotion, and, most importantly, frame the experiences with meaning? During class time, students will collaborate with each other and experiment with the following tasks: uncovering the real story; turning yourself into a character (Philip Lopate’s idea); building a little event into a big idea; making beginnings, pivots, and endings; choosing details; trimming precious prose; writing to the “dear reader.” The instructor’s individual feedback in class will support student writing. Short reading selections will complement the writing projects.

This class will be meeting at Edgewood Farm, 3 Edgewood Way, Truro.

Wendy Horwitz’s essays, editorials, and reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Afterimage, Neurology (Humanities Section), Jewish Literary Journal, Intrepid Times, and McClatchy-Tribune News Service, among others. Her memoir on everyday ritual will be published by Indiana University Press in 2025. Originally trained as a pediatric psychologist, she has taught writing and health humanities to college and medical students in the Philadelphia area.