Truing the Narrative: Revising for Symmetry to Make Your Manuscript Sing
When a memoirist studies her manuscript for patterns in theme and style, the symmetries she cultivates bring powerful shape to her book.
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When a memoirist studies her manuscript for patterns in theme and style, the symmetries she cultivates bring powerful shape to her book.
Brooklyn Poets cultivates literary community and craft through a wide range of educational programs and events accessible to all, both in-person at their location in Brooklyn Heights and online. Their space is open to the public five days per week and includes a small bookstore, community space, and a variety of free and paid programming. Their poetry workshops, taught by award-winning poets, range from one-hour drop-ins to three-hour intensives to multi-week workshops to their yearlong mentorship program.

Founded in 2015, the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute offers writing workshops in several genres to writers of all ages, creating a community of writers who continue an open exchange of ideas and inspiration. Their instructors are published working writers, professors, editors, and master teachers.

The author of The House on Mango Street on the origins and impact of the Macondo Writers Workshop, which has brought together writers who are activists for twenty-five years.
A writing teacher proposes a new way to approach workshops—without the language of “good” or “bad.”