TEST ONLY F5D. Memoir Workshop: From Then to Now
Literature & Writing | Available (Membership Required)
(6 sessions, no class on March 21st)
Memoir is a capacious form—it can encompass a single event, an era, or an entire life. It can weave back and forth in time: exploring how we remember “before” from after, or how “before” influenced who we are now. We will begin with a prompt for a two-page exercise. Subsequent classes will offer prompts, or writers can choose their own subject. Bi-weekly submissions of two to four pages will be kindly critiqued and lead to a discussion of literary approaches: point of view, showing vs. telling, foreshadowing, etc. Every submission will be returned with a full line edit from the instructor.
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Ann Patty
Presenter
Ann Patty is the author of Living With a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin (Viking/Penguin, 2016). Her essays have been published in many print and online publications, from The Wall Street Journal to Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. Ann worked in New York trade publishing for more than 30 years. She was the founder and publisher of the Poseidon Press (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) and an executive editor at Crown Publishers and Harcourt. Learn more at annpatty.com
Suzanne Holzberg
Producer