Everyday Drama: Shaping Memoir from Diaries, Notes, and Journals 4-Week Zoom Workshop with Rebecca van Laer, Starts Tuesday, October 28th, 2025

Begins  Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Tuesdays, 6:30PM - 8:30PM EST Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Rebecca van Laer is the author of two books: HOW TO ADJUST TO THE DARK (novella, Long Day Press, 2022), and CAT (memoir, Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, forthcoming). Her fiction and essays appear in the New England Review, Joyland, TriQuarterly, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University, where she studied queer and feminist autobiography. Learn more about Rebecca in our Meet the Teaching Artist series.  Memoir doesn’t always need to center around a life-changing turning point — sometimes, it’s a record of the everyday dramas of life and the way they accrue meaning. In this generative workshop, we’ll look at recent diaristic works as we mine our mundane experiences for narrative material. Natalie Goldberg reminds us that memoir