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Memoir Techniques: Writing the Things I Don’t Remember

Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir

Online

Open to all levels

1 Session

Start Date: July 30, 2023
End Date: July 30, 2023
Day of Week: Sunday
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm PT
Capacity: 20 seats
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Member Price: $108.00
General Price: $120.00

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Every writer of memoir worries about their gaps in memory. In this class, we'll discuss four specific techniques for writing the things you don't remember, and read published examples of how different authors handle this problem in their work. We'll practice applying the techniques—Filling in the gaps, Telling all the versions, Excavating, and Forgetting as the story—to our own works-in-progress.

Registration dates:

June 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

June 6: Member registration opens

June 13: General registration opens

Nicole Hardy

Nicole Hardy

Nicole Hardy is the author of the memoir Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin and the poetry collections This Blonde and Mud Flap Girl's XX Guide to Facial Profiling — a chapbook of pop-culture inspired sonnets.

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