ONSITE: Space, Place, + Identity: Creative Nonfiction (Only offered a few times a year!)
Adult Multi-Week | This class is completed
In this workshop, we’ll write about where we’re from, where we’ve been, and where we hope to go in the future. We’ll generate essays about one’s hometown or region, travel or exploration, and the changed geography of our lives during the pandemic. Part workshop, part craft discussion, part generative space. You will write four short essays by the end of the class.
- Students need writing materials for in-class writing prompts (laptop or notebook). Students will be expected to exchange class materials via email, so must be able to regularly access internet from home as well.
Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
This is an On-site course. Students must follow current Covid-19 protocols, as outlined on our website. For more info visit visarts.org. On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program: if interested please visit visarts.org.
April Sopkin
April Sopkin is the current Writer-in-Residence at VisArts. She was awarded a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and her work has appeared in Joyland, MIT Technology Review, Carve, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 Tin House Scholar and her work has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the Patricia Aakhus Award, and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. April’s work has also been supported by fellowships and artist residencies, including the Tin House Summer Workshop, TENT: Creative Writing at the Yiddish Book Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.