Writing Your Life: An Introduction To Memoir Writing ~ with Dr. Diane Goodman

We are living in the age of the memoir and everyone has a story that deserves to be told. In this workshop, Dr. Goodman will provide you with the tools for writing your story by exploring the personal essay and memoir genres through lecture, selected readings,  discussion, and prompts/exercises. Topics will include narrative strategies, how to select material, how to structure material, how to incorporate literary devices (ie-metaphor, imagery, dialogue, setting...).

You will leave with enough of a start to begin writing your personal essay or memoir, and examples to help guide you.

Diane Goodman holds a PhD in English, in addition to an MFA in Creative Writing, and has been teaching literature and writing at the university level for over 25 years. Dr. Goodman’s publications include “A History of Modern Poetry” (EBSCO), as well as poems and essays which have appeared in many literary journals and national magazines. She is also the author of several short story collections ~“Party Girls”, “The Plated Heart”, “The Genius of Hunger”~ and a poetry chapbook, “Constellations”, all of which have earned her a place in the American Writers Series.

All of our workshops are held over Zoom.

You will receive an email 30 minutes before the workshop begins with the link to join the Zoom meeting. We highly recommend you to create a Zoom account prior to class.

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