Classes

Nonfiction, Memoir

  • Term: Spring 2023
  • Start Date: April 23, 2023
  • End Date: April 23, 2023
  • Day of Week: Sunday
  • Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm PT
  • Level: Intermediate, Introductory
  • Audience: Adult
  • Location: Online
  • Availability: Full
  • Public Price: $120.00
  • Member Price: $108.00

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Roadmapping Your Memoir

Develop a clear roadmap for your memoir in this comprehensive workshop. Memoir author and writing coach Ingrid Ricks will help you hone in on your story theme and message, and teach you four compelling ways to structure your book. Then she’ll walk you through the simple outlining process she employs for every book project that she takes on. This class includes a 30-minute individual coaching session to drill down on your story structure and message.

Registration dates:

March 13: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

March 14: Member registration opens

March 21: General registration opens

Ingrid Ricks

Ingrid Ricks

She, Her

Ingrid Ricks is an NYT-bestselling memoir author, writing coach, and inspirational speaker who is passionate about leveraging personal storytelling to foster healing, awareness, empathy, and change. Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of students of every age find healing and empowerment by writing the deeply personal stories they needed to tell, and has produced eight anthologies in partnership with high schools and non-profits. Ingrid, who views personal storytelling as the key to healing and unity in today’s divided world, regularly presents her Healing Through Personal Storytelling workshops in partnership with organizations throughout the region and has delivered keynote talks on the subject to educators and social workers nationwide. Ingrid’s books include the coming-of-age memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, and Focus, a memoir about her journey with the blinding eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. She has also ghostwritten several memoirs and has shared stories from her childhood on Salon and NPR.