WA011 Small Moments, Epic Tales: The Art of Growing Essays into Memoirs

SMALL MOMENTS, EPIC TALES: The Art of Growing Essays into Memoirs

Course Description:

Join a supportive community of international writers to learn how to transform your personal essays into compelling book-length memoirs.

In this intimate ten-week workshop, explore how small moments can blossom into powerful, full-length works by examining the way celebrated authors have successfully expanded their essays into memorable memoirs.

Also, using practical tools such as close reading, discussion, and workshopping your own work, learn to identify the universal themes in your personal narratives and develop them into longer works.

Administrative Notes:

This course is also open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

This class is on ZOOM.

About the Instructor: 

With degrees in journalism and creative writing, Jennifer Lauck is the New York Times and London Times bestselling writer of the memoirs Blackbird, Still Waters, Found and The Summer of ’72.

She has also published a series of interlocking essays in the collection titled Show Me the Way and has had essays published in several anthology collections, including Knitting Yarns. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad.

• https://blackbirdstudiopdx.com/
• https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/