Intermediate Memoir Workshop
This class has been cancelled. We encourage you to look at the Lifewriting or Craft of Personal Narrative courses, both of which will help you make progress with your memoir.
This 6-session workshop class explores the increasingly popular memoir genre for students who have completed Craft of the Personal Narrative, or are at the beginning stages of their memoirs.
We’ll look at how memory is transformed into compelling writing and discuss the writing process and the decisions we make along the way.
Meeting every other week will give us time to read memoirs to inform our own writing, to hear from successful memoirists on how they tackled the challenges of the genre, and of course to make progress on our own work.
A good amount of class time will be spent workshopping student manuscripts. Students should expect to develop 2-3 short memoir manuscripts based on personal experience, and are encouraged to bring projects already in progress.
Writer’s Roadmap This course is suited for those interested in telling stories from their lives. Graduates of Creative Writing I and Craft of Personal Narrative will especially benefit.
Students interesting in continuing their work from this class may wish to re-take this Memoir Workshop in the spring, explore Freelance Magazine Writing or Personal Essay Workshop (coming in Spring), or move forward to the Advanced Memoir Workshop.
About the Instructor: Annette Gendler is a creative nonfiction writer. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Under the Sun, South Loop Review and on flashquake.com and is forthcoming in Natural Bridge and Kaleidoscope. 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 two community colleges, and does PR/advertising work for her children’s school. She lives in Hyde Park with her husband and three children.