“Memoirs: Writing the Truth, Even When It Hurts
March 8 – 10am – 1pm
Level: Intermediate & Advanced
Age Group: 18+
Description:
This workshop is about more than digging through our memories to write an engaging life story. Our stories matter, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start or how to organize them for publication or family and friends. In this half-day workshop, we will discuss the materials we have at hand–photographs, objects, interviews (those we’ve conducted or may need to do), places we live or have lived, events that have shaped us, even old newspapers and magazines–and how to gather information from them most effectively for the narratives we wish to shape. We will use the workshop to recognize how many of these materials we already have at our disposal and to develop the kind of research we may want to do to expand our narratives. We will write from these materials using prompts provided throughout the session. In addition to prompts, we will discuss how other tools such as reading and group writing practice can sustain us as we delve deeply and get at the nitty gritty details that make our personal stories come alive. Participants will have a chance not only to explore their personal stories, but will discuss how understanding the larger political, economic, and cultural environment in which these stories live, give greater impact to the stories we want to tell about our own lives.
By the end of this workshop, participants will have the beginnings of at least five memoirs or non-fiction pieces that could be further developed.“
More info: https://events.humanitix.com/memoirs-writing-the-truth-even-when-it-hurts
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