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The One-Sentence Memoir
All Levels | Dive into the murky waters of your life and emerge holding one glistening sentence. In this workshop, we’ll work on getting to the nut of the story of your life — or one of the stories of your life — in order to capture its complexities, conundrums, and paradoxes in a single sentence. Done well, this kind of work is invaluable for book proposals, personal essays, and memoirs.
Due to COVID-19, all classes will take place online-either through Zoom or through Wet Ink, our asynchronous learning platform-through Spring quarter 2021.
All times are listed in Pacific Time.
Instructor: Miranda Weiss
Class Type: 1 Session
Nonfiction, OnlineStart Date: 10/03/2020
Days of the Week: Saturday
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 15
$81.00
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Miranda Weiss
Miranda Weiss is the author of Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller. Her science and nature writing have been published by The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Post, Alaska Magazine, and REI, and her work has been anthologized in This is the Place: Women Writing about Home, which the New York Times called “far-reaching and compelling.” Her essay, “A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold,” was recognized as Notable by Best American Essays, and her work has been supported by grants from the Rasmuson Foundation and the University of Alaska. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Homer, Alaska where she explores tidepools, maintains a large garden, keeps chickens, harvests wild greens, and fills the freezer each summer with salmon.