The content of your story is like clay on a pottery wheel:
raw and rich with potential and possibility.
It is the sculpting and shaping of that clay that transforms it into memoir.
But how do you know what shape your memoir should take?
Do you need to establish a structure before you start writing?
What happens if the story changes as you work on it?
And how do the heart and essence of your memoir affect the way it is shaped?
Please join me for Shaping Your Story,
a 3-session LIVE online workshop series,
and I will offer answers to these questions and more.
You will also receive a curated collection of rich resources
to read and use in your own time.
February 21, 23 & 25
3-4 pm Eastern Time (Toronto/New York)*
*All sessions will be conducted live over Zoom, then recorded and made available within 24 hours.
Therefore, you do NOT need to be able to attend all 3 sessions live.
You will have lifetime access to the accompanying resources.
COST:
US$129 / CA$149 / £95
To register and pay in your home currency, click on the appropriate flag:
“Even though I’ve had three memoirs published, each shaped in its own unique way, I found this workshop to be indispensable.
With humour and style, and an intensely creative approach, Alison manages to bring crystal clarity to a process that can be endlessly murky and confusing.
Highly recommended!”
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Alison Wearing is the author of award-winning articles, short stories, essays, solo plays, and three critically-acclaimed memoirs. Her first book, Honeymoon in Purdah, became a national bestseller and was published in seven countries. Her memoir Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter was nominated for the RBC/Taylor Prize, shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction, named an Indigo Top 50 Pick, and became a national bestseller.
Her latest book, Moments of Glad Grace, has been heralded as "a wise, funny, and tender book, beautifully written and perfectly executed from first to last sentence" by Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi.
Alison is also a multiple award-winning writer/performer of autobiographical one-woman shows, and the creator/facilitator of the interactive online program, Memoir Writing Ink.
“Alison’s classes are pure JOY!”