Advanced Memoir Workshop
Meets monthly on Thursdays.
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This class continues our exploration of memoir for returning students and as well as those who have completed Writing Your Memoir.
We’ll look at how memory is transformed into compelling writing and discuss the writing process and the decisions we make along the way.
We meet once a month and read a booklength memoir to discuss with the group. Aside from the book discussion, the majority of class time is spent workshopping student manuscripts. (After registration is completed, students will receive further instruction on how to prepare for this class.)
This course is limited to 10 students. Participants should have up to 25 pages of a manuscript to workshop and previous memoir workshop experience.
Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for those with experience writing and exposing their work in a writing workshop environment. To assure that workshop students are in the class that will be most beneficial to them, we ask that prospective students contact us to send in up to 10 pages of a working draft. StoryStudio will then determine if the Advanced Memoir Workshop or Writing Your Memoir would be the best fit.
Please email or call us to see if this workshop is right for you: info@storystudiochicago.com or 773.477.7710.
About the Instructor:
Annette Gendler is a creative nonfiction writer. Her work was most recently published in Natural Bridge, and is forthcoming in Literary Mama. Her essays have also appeared in Kaleidoscope, Bellevue Literary Review, Under the Sun, South Loop Review and on flashquake.com . She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. In addition to teaching memoir at StoryStudio, she works as an English instructor at Kaplan University and does PR/advertising work for her children’s school. She lives in Hyde Park with her husband and three children.
Date/Time: Meets monthly on Thursdays
Location: 4043 N. Ravenswood #222, Chicago IL
Course Fee: Non-Member:$215; Member:$205.