Writing Memoir to Understand Your Family: Finding Your Voice, While Honoring Theirs

with Elizabeth Mayorca

Genres: Nonfiction

Online

Open to all levels

1 Session

Start Date: February 25, 2023
End Date: February 25, 2023
Day of Week: Saturday
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
Member Price: $81.00
General Price: $90.00

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We will read excerpts from several memoirs. Each hour of the class, we will write for ten minutes 1) through a photo, visual object, scent, sound, taste (food they cooked or ate), 2) in the direct voice of a family member, 3) through a healing image, 4) through a questionnaire or letter to our family member to address something we wish to ask/say but never found the time or courage, and 5) through a family myth we wish to change.

Registration dates:

December 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

December 6: Member registration opens

December 13: General registration opens

Elizabeth Mayorca

Elizabeth Mayorca

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Go to elizabethmayorca.com for more information about Elizabeth.

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