Michele Herman
Tuesday - Friday
September 3 - 6
1pm - 4pm
4 Sessions

Most memoir workshops rely on prompts (write about a time when….), which are great for generating material. But I find it far more useful to teach storytelling craft: building suspenseful and richly sensory scenes, working around gaps in your memory, creating essential narrative perspectives. In this weeklong workshop we’ll study the craft found in short excerpts from published work (I’ll provide the texts) and you’ll try out those strategies. You’ll generate plenty of material, but also amass new narrative skills. 

Michele Herman is an award-winning columnist at The Villager and The Village Sun. Her first novel, Save the Village (Regal House 2022), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, and she has published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press: Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes (2022) and Victory Boulevard (2018). She's a devoted, longtime memoir teacher at The Writers Studio, a developmental editor and writing coach.Description