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Framing Your Memoir with Jennifer Freed

  • Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street Gloucester, MA, 01930 United States (map)

Join Jennifer Freed for this one-session workshop!

Register here today: https://givebutter.com/7Yo9L8

Suggested workshop fee: $50

How do successful writers shape their memoirs in ways that draw the interest of people who are busy with their own personal stories? In this workshop, we’ll discuss ways to establish purpose and evoke readers’ curiosity. We’ll start by doing close readings of various excerpts from published authors to elicit strategies that you can apply to your own writing. Then, in-class exercises will give you a chance to apply what you’ve learned to your own work.

No previous experience required. Open to all who like reading and want to learn more about the craft of writing. 

Jennifer Freed has been leading Writing Craft programs for organizations including Yale Women Writers, the Stanley Kunitz Home Summer Writing Program, and her own local library. She is the author of When Light Shifts, a memoir-in-poems, which explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage and which was named a 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. http://jfreed.weebly.com

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