Strategies for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect,” wrote Anaïs Nin. This is the perfect opportunity to engage our senses and foray into memoir, creative nonfiction and personal essay. Inspired by handouts and writing prompts, participants will share and discuss their writing in a stimulating atmosphere of collaborative exploration. Continuing and new writers welcome.

6 Fridays, 1:30-4:00 p.m., 9/19/2014 – 10/24/2014

MINDY LEWIS is the author of Life Inside: A Memoir and the editor of the essay anthology DIRT: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House. Her essays, articles and book reviews have been published in Newsweek, NY Times Book Review, Lilith, Body & Soul, Poets & Writers, Arts & Letters Journal, Many Mountains Moving, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and in several anthologies. She enjoys leaving her Manhattan apartment to teach at HVWC and The Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA; she has also taught at Brooklyn College and has been a visiting writer at George Mason University. Ms. Lewis has been a fellow at the Banff Centre and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Register at http://writerscenter.org/courses/strategies-for-memoir-creative-nonfiction