Self-Editing for Prose Writers

Tuesdays from April 22 - May 13 from 7-830pm. 

No one writes a perfect draft the first time. Well, almost no one. There are whispered legends, but the evidence is scant. Most of us need to take our writing through multiple rounds of editing before it’s done. And for those first few rounds, we serve as our own editors.

If you want to take your writing to the next level, it’s important to develop your skills as an editor. There are unique challenges to editing your own work, but they don’t have to bog you down. 

This four-week online workshop will teach you the essential skills of self-editing—from developing your voice to managing points of view to line-editing—to help you elevate your craft. Fiction and non-fiction writers welcome.

The facilitator for this workshop is M. C. (Christine) Benner Dixon, Ph.D., whose craft writing book Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life, co-authored with Sharon Fagan McDermott, was named one of Poets & Writers Magazine’s “Best Books for Writers.” Christine’s debut novel, The Height of Land, was the winner of the 2022 Orison Fiction Prize. She is the owner and operator of Zizia Studio, LLC, which offers editing and coaching services online. Christine was a classroom teacher for over fifteen years and served as the interim executive director at Write Pittsburgh in 2023–2024.