Tiny Windows to Difficult Things Workshop with Jill Christman (December 4 Zoom)

Beautiful Things: Tiny Windows to Difficult Things

In this nonfiction session, we’ll look at a handful of published examples from Beautiful Things (River Teeth’s weekly online magazine of micro essays) and think about specific strategies we can recruit to identify the images, locate the voice, build the structures, and sculpt the language that will help us to craft our difficult material into miniature essays that “[magnify] some small aspect of what it means to be human” (Bernard Cooper).

This workshop will meet Thursday December 4 at 2pmET via Zoom. The link will be sent to you the day of the workshop. Please register here by December 1. The workshop fee is $25.

Jill Christman’s newest memoir, The Heart Folds Early, will be released in spring 2026 by the University of Nebraska Press. She is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (2023 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner), two previous memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (winner of AWP Prize for CNF) and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies and in magazines such as Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Iron Horse Literary Review, Longreads, The Rumpus, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A 2020 NEA Literature Fellow, she teaches at Ball State University where she edits River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things. Visit her at jillchristman.com, riverteethjournal.com, and on Blue Sky @jillchristman.bsky.social.