Carolyn Kellogg Joins Writing Workshops Los Angeles!

Carolyn Kellogg!

I’m very excited to welcome writer Carolyn Kellogg to our growing roster of instructors.  Carolyn will be teaching the Spring/Summer 2010 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Personal Essay and Memoir, beginning June 1st.  Go here for more details.  Carolyn and I have been friends for about a year now, and she continually impresses me with her passion for books and reading, her astute critical gaze, and her endless efforts to make L.A. a wondrous place for writers and readers (which it is, thanks in part to her.)

Here’s her official bio:

Carolyn Kellogg, who writes about books for the Los Angeles Times, holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and in UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her work is regularly read online and in print at the Los Angeles Times and other venues, and can be heard on NPR. She was a judge of the 2010 Story Prize, the Library of Congress’s Letters to Literature Contest, USC’s Wonderland Prize and the Morning News Tournament of Books. Work by Ms. Kellogg is upcoming in Black Clock and a Red Hen Press anthology about California.

And here’s her Instructor’s Statement:

In class, we will explore the pleasures of reality-based narratives and the sometimes-conflicting pressures of truthtelling and storytelling. We will discuss the difference between memoir and memory, the difficulties of disclosure, and explore the edges of nonfiction. We will also practice, practice, practice: form, technique, discipline, play. Workshops and exercises are designed to ignite the desire to read and to write. Each individual voice will be fostered, encouraging students to be the best writers they can be.