THOMAS LARSON MEMOIR WORKSHOP
A memoir is a story that focuses on the meaning and intensity of a
singular relationship in the author’s life—unresolved feelings for a
parent, a child, a sibling, a friend; coming to terms with a loss, an
illness, a death; remembering a significant phase like childhood or
adolescence or a period like college in which the writer was
challenged or changed.
Join Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist:
Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, for a two-hour workshop in
memoir writing. We begin by discussing the significant differences
between traditional autobiography and contemporary memoir. Next
we explore memoir’s demanding questions: where do I begin, what
is my focus, how do I discover the emotional truth of my story, how
do I write about the living? With numerous writing prompts, we look
at the mainstays of the memoir form: truth-telling and self-disclosure;
sudden versus long-ago memoir; good and bad therapeutic writing;
and the importance of metaphor and myth in the personal life.
"Writing the Memoir"
Two-Hour Workshop*
Two-Hour Workshop*
THE THOMAS LARSON WORKSHOP WAS HELD AT:
Main Street Books, Hattiesburg, MS on October
14, 2008
For more information concerning our next Thomas Larson
workshop, contact Richelle Putnam
Main Street Books, Hattiesburg, MS on October
14, 2008
For more information concerning our next Thomas Larson
workshop, contact Richelle Putnam
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