Lit Fest 2024

In his writing workshops, author Michael Pollan talks about every piece of nonfiction needing a "laundry line": a main conceptual throughline that is strong yet flexible enough to hold the various vignettes and analyses that make up the piece. This craft seminar will provide an opportunity for writers to develop a sturdy laundry line for a current project. We’ll brainstorm pivotal moments in each piece’s structure and then craft our own laundry lines, all while discussing the difference between narrative and chronology, identifying thematic and emotional “turns” in a piece, braiding personal reflection with reportage and analysis, and much more.