Workshop with Anjali Enjeti: How to Write and Sell Your Personal Essay

For the first half of this class, we’ll explore the myriad forms of the personal essay – from lyrical and braided essays to prose poems, from travel essays to flash essays to hybrid essays that incorporate research and reporting. We’ll learn how to come up with the “message” or “lesson” for an essay and how to build compelling narratives for long-form and short-form pieces.

In the second half, we’ll take a look at some of the best markets for personal essays (for both beginning and seasoned writers), and the best online sources to help you find the perfect publication for your work. We’ll look at pay rates, peruse sample pitch letters, discuss submissions guidelines, and how and when to follow up with editors.

Tickets available here.

Registration: $35, Hub City Members: $30

Anjali Enjeti

Anjali Enjeti is an award-winning essayist and board member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, The Week, Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, Longreads, and elsewhere. She’s received three Pushcart Prize nominations, one Best of the Net 2017 nomination, a 2016 honorable mention in the first person essay category from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, first place in the 2015 Prime Number Magazine creative nonfiction contest, and two "notable" mentions in Best American Essays 2016 and Best American Essays 2017. She teaches creative nonfiction in the Etowah Valley MFA program at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia, and is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle.