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SUMMARY:From Memory to Story with Molly Wizenberg (Online Learning - Six Sessions)
DESCRIPTION:Online Learning Class\nIn this class for creative nonfiction writers\, we will practice tapping into our memories\, rebuilding scenes from the past\, and writing vividly from within them.\n\nWriting about our own lives might sound simple\; you've lived it\, and now you'll just write it down. But the work of a writer is not just to recount what we remember. Our job is to evoke our experiences in words\, so that another person might feel what it was like -- and so that we might understand why it was important\, why we remember what we do.\n\nIn this small-group online workshop\, Molly Wizenberg will share an approach she’s used time and again in her own writing. We will begin with a single image -- the slant of a stranger's nose\, the way a lover tied her shoes\, the thing your father always said -- and through the act of writing\, we will travel back to inhabit the old scene again\, get curious and poke around\, ask questions of ourselves\, and search for meaning in the raw material of our lives. \n\nAlongside writing exercises and assignments\, we will also read and discuss short readings from a broad swath of writers\, from Jenny Erpenbeck to M. F. K. Fisher\, Francis Lam\, Joan Didion\, Ryan Van Meter\, and poet Sharon Olds. Participants will share some of the work they produce and will receive constructive feedback from the instructor and the group. No experience is necessary\, and all skill levels are welcome. In fact\, this workshop is for anyone with access to the Internet and a curiosity about your own life\, whether or not you call yourself a ‘writer.’\n\n \n\nMolly Wizenberg is the bestselling author of three memoirs: The Fixed Stars\, A Homemade Life\, and Delancey. Her work has appeared in The Guardian\, Lit Hub\, The Washington Post\, Bon Appetit\, and elsewhere. From 2004 to 2019\, she wrote the James Beard Award-winning blog Orangette. Molly lives in Seattle and teaches writing around the world.\n\nView instructor profile here.\n\n&nbsp\;
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Fine Art\, Creative Thinking\, and Writing
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