The Multitudes, originally taught as a live class via Zoom at The Resort. This version of the course can be purchased by any writer for $54 and includes:
video recording of the two hour lecture and Q&A
PDF of 29 slides the presentation, including helpful tips, writing prompts, and links to further resources
handouts/worksheets
full transcript of The Multitudes lecture and Q&A
bonus material: recording of the one-hour panel discussion with Cinelle, Vivian Lee, and Noah Ballard, originally held as an exclusive Cabana Club event
membership in the online Resort network for anyone who is not already a member
About the course:
There is great beauty in essay collections. There is also a ton of madness. How do you thread together seemingly disparate pieces and the multitude of techniques, formats, ideas, and even voices within you in one book? Can there be diversity and yet unity in a collection or anthology? Tailoring one of her most popular writing courses for The Resort, author of Malaya: Essays on Freedom and editor of the anthology, A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South, Cinelle Barnes will share Resort-exclusive tools and take-home visual aids for setting scope, organizing ideas, pitching collections or anthologies, and playing with form—proposing practices that activate the energy and freedom that the modern essay offers. Exclusive to The Resort, Cinelle will share segments from her essay collection and anthology proposals, showing us developmental details that have led to successful pitches and secured spots in publisher catalogues. This course is for writers of all levels, whether in the beginning stages of collecting short-form works or at the developmental revision phase of their manuscripts.
Take this class at your own pace through a recording of the lecture and Q&A!