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SUMMER DATES
June 23—August 11 • Tuesday nights, 6-8 P.M via Zoom
This summer, we’re teaching The Magic of Memoir and Storytelling, an eight-week workshop devoted to reading and writing memoir and personal essays.
The elements of storytelling remain the same whether you’re writing fiction or memoir:
Write in scene.
Write dialogue.
Pay attention to fine detail.
Let your characters surprise you.
Write what scares you.
Don’t let the paint dry: Tap away at your keyboard until a rough draft of your essay/chapter/short story is done.
What to expect from this course:
We’ll read Marion Roach Smith’s The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, as well as excerpts from Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, ,Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, Anthony Kiedis’ memoir Scar Tissue, Mary Karr’s Lit: An Electrifying Story of Sobriety, Motherhood, and Learning to Write with Unflinching Honesty and Dani Shapiro’s Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life. We’ll also read personal essays and NYT Modern Lovecolumns. You only have to buy or borrow Smith’s The Memoir Project for this class.
Writers can submit up to 40 pages, double-spaced, in 14 point type, for line edits, written feedback and class discussion.
SUMMER DATES
June 23—August 11 • Tuesday nights, 6-8 P.M via Zoom
This summer, we’re teaching The Magic of Memoir and Storytelling, an eight-week workshop devoted to reading and writing memoir and personal essays.
The elements of storytelling remain the same whether you’re writing fiction or memoir:
Write in scene.
Write dialogue.
Pay attention to fine detail.
Let your characters surprise you.
Write what scares you.
Don’t let the paint dry: Tap away at your keyboard until a rough draft of your essay/chapter/short story is done.
What to expect from this course:
We’ll read Marion Roach Smith’s The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, as well as excerpts from Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, ,Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, Anthony Kiedis’ memoir Scar Tissue, Mary Karr’s Lit: An Electrifying Story of Sobriety, Motherhood, and Learning to Write with Unflinching Honesty and Dani Shapiro’s Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life. We’ll also read personal essays and NYT Modern Lovecolumns. You only have to buy or borrow Smith’s The Memoir Project for this class.
Writers can submit up to 40 pages, double-spaced, in 14 point type, for line edits, written feedback and class discussion.