This workshop will consist of two sessions. The second session will take place on Wednesday, October 28, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The workshop fee includes both sessions.

This workshop, appropriate for all levels, will cover key elements of contemporary personal or family memoir along with craft tips and techniques to guide or enhance your own memoir writing. It will include:

1. Structure is Queen

2. Voice means a lot of things

3. Scenes and dialog are essential

4. Take-away and reflection are key

5. To outline or not; and tracking through-threads

6. The emotional terrain of memoir and other sticky wickets

7. When to get feedback and from whom

The two sessions will include introductions, presentation, chatroom discussions, plenary group Q and A; with a brief (free-write) assignment between the sessions

Gretchen Eberhart Cherington is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart. Her memoir, Poetic License, focuses on life among her parents’ social circle of literary giants, exposing the difficult realities behind the myths. Her family spent summers on Cape Rosier.

$35

Pre-registration required

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