Take your memoir writing to the next level with this workshop led by Nikki Moustaki, author of 46 works of book-length nonfiction, including the memoir The Bird Market of Paris. Whether just starting writing or experienced in creative nonfiction, the workshop aims to hone your current skills as well as offer new techniques. Marketplace and publishing will be discussed as well.  

Instructor:
Nikki Moustaki has spent more than 20 years working with agents and editors on commercial projects, and submitting her literary and commercial work for publication in newspapers, literary magazines and glossies. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in poetry and been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Good Housekeeping, among other magazines and journals. Her memoir, The Bird Market of Paris, won Elle magazine's "Lettres 2015 Reader's Prize," and was featured in Glamour magazine. Oprah's O Magazine named the book a "burn it down memoir from women who lived their truth." Moustaki has taught creative writing at Miami Dade College, New York University, Indiana University, and The New School in New York City. She is currently working on a novel and her second memoir.