Memoir Writing [F-24-26]

This course will consist of four two-hour sessions. Session 1: What is Creative Nonfiction? Finding an original subject, Researching. Session 2: What form will it take, telling a true story. Session 3: Putting yourself on the Line (honesty). Session 4: Structure, style and attitude. Session 5: Revising, with and without an editor, law and ethics.

Helen Condon holds a Master's degree in Creative Nonfiction with a minor in poetry from UNCW in 1999. Her memoir,  The Big Rug, deals with the making of the biggest, braided rug she ever attempted and the death of her husband of thirty-three years. She taught Memoir Writing at the Blue Mountain Lake Art Center, Waddington Hepburn Library, SOAR and the Old Forge Art Center. She has taught poetry writing for SOAR and owns Adirondack Rug Braiding, where she teaches rug braiding in her second floor studio in the 1863 boarding house she renovated.    

Special Instructions:

Read memoirs. I will have many memoirs to lend to participants. If you've kept journals look back at them and find a time you wish to write about.

Cap: 8