This Fall at The Writers Studio

I’m teaching four classes at The Writers Studio this fall:

• Auditioning for Your Narrator — begins September 8
• Advanced Memoir — begins October 7
• Advanced Memoir 2 — begins October 8
• Virtual Memoir NYC — begins October 19

New at Cagibi: From Situation to Story

A Memoir Workshop with Sylvie Bertrand

Seven Saturdays | October 31 – December 19, 2026 (no session November 28, the Saturday after Thanksgiving)

1:00–4:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Pacific)

Live on Zoom

Enrollment: 8 participants

Tuition: $595

Registration opens August 17, 2026, and closes September 20, 2026, or when the workshop reaches capacity.

Every work of literature has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer.

Vivian Gornick