WORKSHOPS

Memoir Writing Book by Thomas Larson

Forthcoming:

"Keep the Memoir Going"

Ghost Ranch, Santa Fe

May 30 - June 5, 2010

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"Keep the Memoir Going"

The Loft, Minneapolis, MN

August 16 - 20, 2010

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"Writing the Memoir"

Ghost Ranch, Abiququ, NM

October 10 - 16, 2010

Memoir Writing Workshops:

Thomas Larson has given two-hour, half-day, all-day, and weeklong workshops at bookstores, writing centers, libraries, writers' guilds, and private clubs for beginning and advanced memoirists throughout the United States

From 2007 to 2010, venues include Warwick’s Bookstore (La Jolla, CA); Ghost Ranch (Santa Fe, NM); St. Louis Writer’s Guild; Lancaster (PA) Literary Guild; Writers’ Center of Indiana (Indianapolis, IN); Mobile Writers Guild (Mobile, AL); Bookpeople (Austin, TX); Houston (TX) Public Library; Palm Springs (CA) Public Library; Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA); Margaret Mitchell House (Atlanta, GA); OLLI Memoir Writers (Auburn, AL); Clemente Program (Port Hadlock, WA); Wordstock (Portland, OR); Kansas City (MO) Public Library; Columbia (MO) Public Library; The Loft (Minneapolis, MN); and Worthington Library (Columbus, OH).

Prior Appearances:

Lancaster Literary Guild

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memoir Writing Workshops
Writing the Memoir: A Two-Hour Workshop Print E-mail
Memoir Writing Workshops

A memoir is a story that focuses on the meaning and intensity of a singular relationship in the author’s life—unresolved feelings for a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend; coming to terms with a loss, an illness, a death; remembering a significant phase like childhood or adolescence or a period like college in which the writer was challenged or changed.

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Writing the Memoir: An Extended Workshop Print E-mail
Memoir Writing Workshops

Many of us have lived fascinating lives whether inwardly or outwardly, during childhood long ago or as adults in the last decade. But when it comes to writing a memoir, where do we begin? The day of our birth? The day we left home? The beginning or end of a relationship? Memoir is most successful when it is not the “story of a life,” but a focused part of that life—a dozen summers spent working on a grandfather’s farm; a long relationship with a dying relative; the first year of law school.
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