Writing Memoir
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Community Workshop
Workshop Leader: Tom Kersting
Regardless of your age, no one else has lived your life, had your own experiences, or seen them from your unique perspective. Whether you’re a student trying to find meaning in a particular moment or moments of your life so far, a senior citizen wishing to record some aspects of your past for your children or grandchildren, or anyone in between, why not take the first step in telling your story?
At this afternoon workshop you will
• begin writing a short piece of your own memoir
(or continue one you may have started already)
• learn the difference between memoir and autobiography
• consider sources of inspiration for memoir
• explore strategies for getting started
• compare ways of structuring a memoir
• discuss writing the truth in memoir
• examine brief memoir samples
• plan where to go from here
• identify further resources for writing memoir
Bring a notebook and pen. You should leave this workshop full of ideas for writing your own memoir and ready to move it forward to the next steps.
Registration is by clicking "Buy Tickets" above, emailing rsvp@artsonthelake.org or calling 845 228-2685.
Public admission is $5. Member / Student admission is $2.
Writing Memoir in the News
Press release: Kersting To Lead Writing Memoir Workshop at Arts on the Lake
About the Event
Tom Kersting has a B.A. and M.A. in English and taught high school English for 40 years. He has also taught as an adjunct in several area colleges. Tom taught memoir for many years and is working on his own memoir about growing up in The Bronx in the 1950s and ‘60s. A member of Arts on the Lake, he coordinates Lake Writers, the writing group that meets the first Wednesday of each month.
This Workshop is made possible, in part, by public funds from Putnam County. This grant program is managed and monitored by the Putnam Arts Council.