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.

Join Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, for a two-hour workshop in memoir writing. We begin by discussing the significant differences between traditional autobiography and contemporary memoir. Next we explore memoir’s demanding questions: where do I begin, what is my focus, how do I discover the emotional truth of my story, how do I write about the living? With numerous writing prompts, we look at the mainstays of the memoir form: truth-telling and self-disclosure; sudden versus long-ago memoir; good and bad therapeutic writing; and the importance of metaphor and myth in the personal life.

* for venues with desks or tables that accommodate up to 20 people.

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tlarson@adnc.com

price: negotiable.
typically I sell my book (PB: $15)

REFERENCES:
Cinny Green, director, Narrative Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM 505-988-9185, edit@thema.us
Susan E. McBeth, organizer, Warwick’s Bookstore, La Jolla, CA warwicksevents@yahoo.com
Heather Goodwillie, assist. editor, San Diego Reader, 619-235-3000, x283 calico@nethere.com
Judy Reeves, writer and writing instructor, 619-284-1343, JAReeves@mac.com