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What if you could write freely about the people from your past — both living and dead — who have played a complicated role in your life's story? What if you were able to write through your fear of legal repercussions, betraying your closest confidants or damaging relationships beyond repair? What if you could talk to a writer who has written honestly about their parents, siblings, exes and themselves in the public eye and faced down personal and professional consequences as a result? What if you weren't scared?
The stories we most want to tell are often the ones we're most afraid to write. They're about the people who shaped us: our parents, siblings, lovers, friends, enemies, and ourselves. Stories tangled up in loyalty, grief, shame, desire, memory, and contradiction. We worry about hurting someone, getting it wrong, burning bridges, inviting judgment, or exposing too much. So the story stays unwritten.
Writing the Truth is a ten-week workshop for writers ready to learn how to transform real life into powerful narrative. Together, we'll explore how writers tell difficult truths without sacrificing complexity, craft, or compassion. Through readings of work by Maxine Hong Kingston, Ocean Vuong, David Sedaris, Alex Auder, Margo Steines, and essays by BWC Founder Molly Rosen — we'll examine the narrative techniques that allow writers to write honestly about the people closest to them—and themselves.
We'll work through the issues that get in the way of you telling the "true" story you want to tell — the good, the bad, the ugly. You will leave with a whole new set of tools and techniques to help you write what once felt impossible on the page.
Our sliding scale options welcome a more diverse participation. If the cost of this course exceeds your financial capacity, please email info@brooklynwriterscollective.com and we will try our best to accommodate — if not this session, then a future one.
What You'll Get
12 classes with Molly Rosen
One private 30-minute Story Expansion Session with Molly
An Action/Accountability Partner
Free-writes every other week
Access to the BWC Google Group, a digital community of writers and alumni
Class Time:
Thursdays 9 AM - 12 PM *with 2 Mondays (Thanksgiving week & Christmas Week)
Class Dates: October 8, 15, 22, 29 November 5, 12, 19 and MONDAY 23rd (replaces the 26th - Thanksgiving) December 3, 10, 17 and MONDAY 21st (replaces the 24th - Christmas Eve)
What if you could write freely about the people from your past — both living and dead — who have played a complicated role in your life's story? What if you were able to write through your fear of legal repercussions, betraying your closest confidants or damaging relationships beyond repair? What if you could talk to a writer who has written honestly about their parents, siblings, exes and themselves in the public eye and faced down personal and professional consequences as a result? What if you weren't scared?
The stories we most want to tell are often the ones we're most afraid to write. They're about the people who shaped us: our parents, siblings, lovers, friends, enemies, and ourselves. Stories tangled up in loyalty, grief, shame, desire, memory, and contradiction. We worry about hurting someone, getting it wrong, burning bridges, inviting judgment, or exposing too much. So the story stays unwritten.
Writing the Truth is a ten-week workshop for writers ready to learn how to transform real life into powerful narrative. Together, we'll explore how writers tell difficult truths without sacrificing complexity, craft, or compassion. Through readings of work by Maxine Hong Kingston, Ocean Vuong, David Sedaris, Alex Auder, Margo Steines, and essays by BWC Founder Molly Rosen — we'll examine the narrative techniques that allow writers to write honestly about the people closest to them—and themselves.
We'll work through the issues that get in the way of you telling the "true" story you want to tell — the good, the bad, the ugly. You will leave with a whole new set of tools and techniques to help you write what once felt impossible on the page.
Our sliding scale options welcome a more diverse participation. If the cost of this course exceeds your financial capacity, please email info@brooklynwriterscollective.com and we will try our best to accommodate — if not this session, then a future one.
What You'll Get
12 classes with Molly Rosen
One private 30-minute Story Expansion Session with Molly
An Action/Accountability Partner
Free-writes every other week
Access to the BWC Google Group, a digital community of writers and alumni
Class Time:
Thursdays 9 AM - 12 PM *with 2 Mondays (Thanksgiving week & Christmas Week)
Class Dates: October 8, 15, 22, 29 November 5, 12, 19 and MONDAY 23rd (replaces the 26th - Thanksgiving) December 3, 10, 17 and MONDAY 21st (replaces the 24th - Christmas Eve)