Explorations in Memoir - 5 week course

In this five part series, join memoir researcher Harley Ryley as we deepen our understanding of the memoir form and explore different approaches to writing it.

Suitable for writers who have started a memoir project and are wanting to develop their writing and thinking further.

Explorations in Memoir is a series of linked workshops designed to help memoir writers expand their writing practice and develop new skills within the form. The workshops will involve a mixture of taught content, writing activities and discussion, and hopefully lots of laughter and debate too! There will be opportunities in some of the sessions to share your work. You will receive activities and prompts to take away after each session.

Workshops in this series:

Workshop 1: What is memoir and why do we write it? - Friday 2nd October 4-6pm

Workshop 2: Memory & the Memoirist- Friday 9th October 4-6pm

Workshop 3: Me and my Narrator - Friday 16th October 4-6pm

Workshop 4: Scene and Summary - Friday 23rd October 4-6pm

Workshop 6: Our Big Beautiful Truths - Friday 30th October 4-6pm

Harley Ryley is a postgraduate researcher in Creative Writing at The University of Sheffield, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Her thesis is a memoir about writing a memoir, which seeks to unwrite all the strange and artificial rules that surround how you 'should' write memoir, to create an innovative and inclusive new approach. Her creative nonfiction has been published by Heroica, Route 57, The Sheffield Review and has been heard on BBC Radio Sheffield.

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