Mark My Words: Writing the Memoir

A memoir is a story that focuses on the meaning and intensity of a singular relationship in the author's life.

During this writing workshop, Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir & the Memoirist: Reading & Writing Personal Narrative, will help participants find a focus, a purpose and the emotional truth of their story.

Those attending will also examine 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.

Registration is required and starts September 1st; call 807-2626.

Since 1999, Thomas Larson has been a contributing writer for the weekly "San Diego Reader," where he specializes in investigative journalism, narrative non-fiction and profiles. He leads workshops and lectures on memoir throughout the United States and facilitates private memoir-writing groups.

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