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Carolyn Lieberg
BK Loren
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Gordon Mennenga
Sharelle Byars Moranville
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Barbara Robinette Moss
Marc Nieson
Shannon Olson
Diana Ossana
Lon Otto
Juliet Patterson
Kiki Petrosino
Mark Jude Poirier
Leslie Carol Roberts
Anjali Sachdeva
Sarah Saffian
Sam Samuels
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Mary Kay Shanley
Robert Anthony Siegel
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Mary Vermillion
Kris Vervaecke
Ashley Warlick
Michelle Wildgen
Bart Yates

Barbara Robinette Moss

Beginning Memoir
One-Week Workshop
June 7–12

Biography

Beginning Memoir
One-Week Workshop
June 7–12

Do you have a personal story that feels stuck in your mind, as if calling to be written? Have you jotted down bits and pieces of it but need a little help determining what you truly want to say? In this class, we will translate experiences and emotions into words. Through class exercises, we will focus on getting to the heart of the story, while acknowledging and considering the powerful emotions stirred by writing personal experiences. We will write, read aloud, and gently revise as we transpose our memories onto the page. Once a story has been established, we will search for the beginning, middle and end, and discuss techniques for strengthening the writing with metaphor, a sense of place, and dialogue. Non-fiction writing can easily get cluttered with “everything that happened.” We will determine what details to leave in, what to leave out. No manuscript is necessary, but please bring your willingness to write and share your experiences. Nightly reading and writing assignments will also be included.

Biography
Barbara Robinette Moss is the author of two memoirs, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter (Scribner, 2000) and Fierce (Scribner, 2004), which was an ELLE magazine pick. She is the recipient of the Iowa Authors Award 2000 and the 2002 Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction. Her nonfiction has been published in two anthologies, Bloom & Blossom and Stories from the Blue Moon Café. Her work has also appeared in Allure Magazine. Moss has been a guest on All Things Considered, The Gary Robertson Show, BBC Radio Scotland, The David Rothenburg Show, The Diane Rehm Show, WBAI Radio New York, and many others. Moss recently spent a year at The Actor’s Studio Drama School in New York City writing a screenplay, an adaptation of Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter.

 

 

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Last updated on February 10, 2009