The Makery: Essays that Open Doors with Jim Minick

Got a book coming out? Better write an op-ed. Want to find an editor or agent? Try writing an essay. Whatever we write, fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, the essay in its many forms opens other doors, especially to more readers. This class will explore some of the options and rationales as well as specific forms, like the op-ed, the crossover, flash, and the origin story.

Jim Minick is the author or editor of eight books, including Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas (nonfiction) The Intimacy of Spoons (poetry, forthcoming), Fire Is Your Water (novel), and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Orion, Shenandoah, Appalachian Journal, Wind, and The SunHe serves as Coeditor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel.