MEMOIR WRITING
2-Day Writing Workshop
"The People and Places in your Memoir"
Dates: February 22 - 23, 2010
Instructor: Judith Barrington
Location: San Miguel de Allende
From the Author of
WRITING THE MEMOIR:
From Truth to Art
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The bestselling book on writing memoir,
now in its second edition with over
100,000 copies sold
 THE INSTRUCTOR: Judith Barrington is a memoirist and a poet. Her Lifesaving:A Memoir won the Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Her best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art is enormously popular with writing groups, university programs, and individual memoirists. Her most recent poetry collection, Horses and the Human Soul was recently selected by the Oregon State Library for "150 Books for the Sesquicentennial" (from among books by Oregon writers, 1836 – 2009).
Her awards include the Andrés Berger Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Dulwich Festival International Poetry Contest, and the Stewart H. Holbrook Award for outstanding contributions to Oregon's literary life. Judith grew up in England and moved to the United States in 1976. She has lived in Portland, Oregon since then, returning to Europe to give readings and workshops in England and Spain every year.
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THE WORKSHOP: Geared toward both beginning and advanced writers, Judith Barrington’s two-day memoir workshop addresses issues of craft and ethics relating to writing about real people and places. Judith’s approach includes discussion of specific topics, mini-lectures, writing exercises, and, when time permits, the sharing of drafts. There will be no critique of previously-written work.
The “People and Places” Workshop focuses on generating new material
with exercises and/or discussion addressing:
* ways into the story
* the narrator as a character
* the use of “I”
* description and imagery
* the importance of place
* dialogue
* setting boundaries around the story
* sounds and rhythms of words
* memory and its inevitable flaws
LIFESAVING: A MEMOIR
By Judith Barrington
Published by
The Eighth Mountain Press
"Many thanks for the wonderful workshop. I have been doing personal writing for quite some time, but never formally. I found that all the questions that I had were pertinent and they were all answered during the weekend. Now it's time to put the answers to use!
Thank you for making the workshop so enjoyable, so applicable and relevant."
-- Kay Danley (student in Judith Barrington’s Writing the Memoir class - Sitka Center for Art &Ecology) |
Cost:
Workshop Only: $150 US
Click here to register now.Space is limited. For information regarding accommodations and travel packages, please email jody@sanmiguelworkshops.com.
A minimum number of students are required for this workshop. If registration proves insufficient, San Miguel Workshops has the right to cancel or postpone the session, and will refund your money in full. Please see additional details under "Terms and Conditions" on the Registration Page of this website.
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