Instructor: Wendy Horwitz
Monday - Friday
July 20 - 24
9am - 12pm
5 sessions, at Edgewood Farm

In this workshop, participants will create personal essays that are set in a home from their past. Students will explore ways to render description and structure (“house”) into meaning and emotion (“home”). How do we use detail, real-life characters, and narrative structure to evoke feelings and perhaps stimulate new ideas? During class time, students will collaborate and experiment with uncovering the central story in the essay; making beginnings, pivots, and endings; trimming precious prose; and writing with the reader in mind. The instructor’s individual feedback will support student writing. Short reading selections will complement writing projects.

The course is suitable for adult writers at all stages.

Wendy A. Horwitz is the author of Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments (2025). Her essays have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Afterimage, Neurology (Humanities Section), Jewish Literary Journal, Intrepid Times, and McClatchy-Tribune News Service, among others. Originally trained as a pediatric psychologist, she has taught writing, psychology, and health humanities at Swarthmore College, Penn State, Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Temple), and the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture and workshop venues have included The Chautauqua Institution and the National Museum of American Jewish History. Wendy lives in Philadelphia.