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Online Memoir Workshop

Discover the power of storytelling and learn to distill your life experiences into a memoir that captivates readers. Join this immersive online workshop to explore narrative techniques and find your unique voice, while receiving personalized feedback from a seasoned memoirist. Unleash your creativity and embark on a transformative writing journey.

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  • 18 and older
  • $385
  • Interactive online classroom
  • 6 hours over 6 sessions
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  • Tue, Jun 18 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Tue, Jun 25 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Tue, Jul 02 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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What you'll learn in this memoir writing class:

What is so challenging about writing a memoir is that you are asking yourself to take the emotionally charged events of your life and shape them aesthetically, so they appeal to the unknown reader—the reader who doesn’t know you and doesn’t necessarily care what happened to you. Unless you can make them.

Using the tried and true Writers Studio method, we will closely examine the work of writers who have been able to turn their personal experiences into memoirs that are transcendentally universal.

What kind of persona narrators did writers like Tara Westover, Roxanne Gay, Joan Didion or James Baldwin create to project themselves as a character on the page? What narrative devices do they employ to transform the raw material of their lives into an engaging and compelling story? By focusing on craft, we will learn how to establish the narrative distance we need to connect to the emotional power of our experiences without being overwhelmed by it.

We will look at a short excerpt of a different author each week. Our goal in this course is to try to emulate different models by extracting their narrative tools and using them to unlock the full potential of our own stories.

Students will attend Memoir writing classes at their scheduled times via Google Meet (with or without cameras enabled) or by calling in to the discussion with their phones. Each student will present two page exercises each week, to be shared electronically, and the format of the live class will be the same as when you attend class in person, with students and teachers responding to your work and discussing the next week’s exercise. The technology for attending class remotely is provided by Google Meet and is extremely easy to use.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

  • All tuition except $50 is refundable if cancellation is made at least 6 business days before the first class meets.
  • All tuition except $100 is refundable if cancellation is made less than 6 business days before the first class meets.
  • All tuition except $100 is refundable if cancellation is made by 5:00 pm on the fifth business day after the first class meets. If the class meets Mondays, cancellation must be made by 5:00 pm on the Friday following the first class.
  • No refunds will be granted afterwards.

All classes and dates are subject to change and cancellation. We cannot be responsible for providing refunds or offering makeup sessions for classes missed as a result of students’ illnesses, emergencies or events beyond the students’ control. Please be advised that classes may go a little later or end a little earlier than the hours designated on the website. We make every effort to honor these designated times, but there is some variability.

Occasionally, a class may be canceled due to extreme weather conditions or other acts of God. We will make every effort to offer makeup sessions when it is possible, but no refunds will be granted in any case.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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