Intro to Memoir
Will Return This Fall
Description: This 6-week class explores the exploding genre of memoir for new students.
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’ll place a strong emphasis on reading memoirs to inform our own writing as well as hear from successful memoirists on how they tackled the challenges of the genre.
A good amount of class time will be spent workshopping student manuscripts. Students should expect to develop 2-3 memoir manuscripts based on personal experience, and are encouraged to bring projects they are already working on.
Who Should Attend: This course is for writers of all levels who want to tell stories from their own lives. Students need not have any prepared pieces before class begins. This class is a pre-requisite for our ongoing workshop, Reading and Writing Memoir.
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.Date/Time: This class returns in Fall 2010
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