NCWN

Cost: $150
In this workshop we will spend the first afternoon critiquing a short memoir (or excerpt of a memoir) you have drafted. You will send this in before the workshop and I will circulate it among those registered. This memoir can take any shape. If you are looking for structure, try telling the story backwards, or start at the crisis and go to back-story, or repeat a line periodically. Write anything that’s true. On the second day, we will try our hand at lyric memoir. This form emphasizes image, depends on the shape and sound of the sentence, the nuance of paragraph. It may be structured through juxtaposition, list, repetition. Lyric memoir is often interior. It creates a mood. Before the workshop, I will send out some examples. Your memoir might be sparked simply by the appearance of a fox in the yard or a ritual (rock collecting, for example) or a wisp of memory. Our aim will be to draft a short short lyric memoir.