The Center for Literature and Theatre at MDC presentsMemoir 101 with MJ Fievre
Monday, 02/24/2014 – 04/14/2014 06:30 pm – 08:30 pm
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
300 NE 2nd avenue,
miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: 170

This workshop will help writers develop specific skills to tell their personal stories with a crafted sensibility. Participants will learn to focus their narrative voice, find a story’s arc, and use scene, characterization, and dialogue to organize the raw material of their lives. Work written during the workshop will be discussed in a non-judgmental environment designed to support each other’s individual skills. We’ll explore the differences between autobiography and memoir and address the idea of self-disclosure. We’ll also discuss the “gray areas” of nonfiction, including the tension between emotional and factual truth, and ideas about truth telling for memoirists. All levels welcome.