The First Draft Club: Memoir

Dates: Thursdays, November 2nd – 16th
Time: 2:00pm to 4:30pm 
Cost: $225
Limited to: 10 Participants
Where: Imprint Bookstore
 
This three-part generative workshop will teach the art and craft of memoir. Those with a manuscript underway and those wanting a boost to get going are all welcome. We’ll read excerpts from memoirs and talk about what you can mine for your own work. Each session, you’ll write from prompts to draft new work – scenes, fragments – that you can continue to write, revise, and add to your manuscript. I’ll offer feedback if you’d like. The workshop will address questions of voice, dialogue, veracity, and structure and help you identify the heart of your story—the pulse and urgency that make us want to write. I’ll send you an excerpt from A Childhood by Harry Crews to read before we meet. The workshop aims to create a safe, supportive atmosphere that fosters a community of writers on the Olympic Peninsula and beyond.