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The Joy Z City Young Voices Workshop

Free – open to juniors & seniors currently enrolled in a Jersey City public high school (tap to expand)

To signup, just email us some sort of personal essay by the Friday before so we have the weekend to enjoy reading it, and please join prepared to discuss a few friendly questions.

See here for essay prompt ideas & recommended word counts because why re-invent the wheel, right?

You’re invited

Autobiografiction recommendations

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle

Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels

Rachel Cusk, The Outline Trilogy

Park Wan-suh, Who Ate All the Shinga?

also, though technically a memoir, Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found

Questions?

Contact gkoo@thejoyzjournal.com for more
information on these opportunities