What's Your Story? A Memoir Writing Course

This course will explore the art of memoir writing, the kind that travels best from your pen to readers everywhere, irrespective of background. This literary genre often presents a fresh set of challenges very different from fiction or reportage, and this course will explore them all. You will delve into the style and substance most suitable for your own writing and will work on establishing authentic, relatable voices, and ethical, yet exciting and imaginative approaches to memoir writing. We will discuss, dissect, write, laugh, cry, eat biscuits, and come away well equipped to start (or finish) that amazing memoir!

Participants will explore memoir writing in both theory and practice and receive coach and peer feedback for the work you do. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage in informal discussion with your peers.