Title: Tell Your Story — Write Memoir - Discovery Workshop

Writing about your personal story can be a transformative experience.

With the right craft tools, true stories can be as compelling as fiction. Award-winning memoir author, Joelle Tamraz, will share her insights from years of experience writing her memoir, The Secret Practice, as well as editing and reading extensively in the genre.

The workshop is organised in four parts:

1. Introduction to memoir

2. Understanding the four interconnected elements of memoir

3. Memoir exercise

4. Starting/sustaining a writing practice and Q&A

Participants will leave the workshop inspired to begin or deepen their memoir writing.

Slides will anchor the workshop but are not necessary as most of the material is conveyed through the talk and discussion.

For the memoir exercise, participants can write in a notebook or electronic device.

This workshop is being delivered to compliment the "Stories of the Mature Woman" exhbition, which invited participants to share their personal story.

Author Bio

Joelle Tamraz has been writing true stories since the age of thirteen and experienced the transformational power of life writing. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir, The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga, as well as a writing coach and developmental editor.

She gives talks and leads workshops at literary festivals, bookshops and the Society of Authors' gatherings and inspires writers at all stages of their journeys to begin or deepen their projects.

Below is feedback from recent events:

‘‘A big thank you for running your workshop and supporting us at Cranleigh this year. From the feedback from several participants, they thought your event was excellent, very productive and well worth attending.’ –Jeremy Elson, author and Cranleigh Book Fest organiser

‘Your presentation last week was inspiring and a catalyst to get me writing again.’ –Emma, workshop participant at Word on the Street bookshop

She is the creator and co-host of the Empowered Women Book Club, reading and discussing bold memoirs by women

https://joelletamraz.com - @joelletamraz on Instagram, Tiktok, X and Bluesky, @joelletamraz1 on Facebook.

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