GAYLETTER

Sharpen your pencils, babies! Journalist/novelist/essayist Bruce Benderson is giving a writer’s workshop in his East Village home, beginning the week of September 15. The exact time and day is to be determined by the group after everyone has signed up. This workshop agenda is twofold: one is focused on Fiction and Creative Nonfiction (Memoir), and the other on Nonfiction writing (Essay and Cultural Journalism). The workshop is divided into 12 weekly meetings at 3 hours each, and will have no more than 10 members per session.

Benderson’s credentials are outstanding, so y’all better read and write up. He’s been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, Têtu, and Vogue Hommes, just to name-drop a handful. His work extends beyond cultural journalism, and the United States, as professor, translator and memoirist. “Our minds are nothing but a series of overlapping, intertwined stories,” says Benderson. “Let’s unravel them.”

Yes, let’s! The fee per workshop is $300, and every penny will be worth it. Even if your writing is still shit afterwards, you can tell cute boys at parties that you’re a recent journalist and budding essayist and you won’t totally be lying. Email bruvable@gmail.com with a writing sample, as short as 2 paragraphs. “This is not a test, merely an attempt to familiarize me with the kind of writing you are doing or are interested in doing,” Benderson says of the sample. So calm down and sign up.