Memoir Writing for Seniors

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In Collaboration with Bacoa

With the firm belief that everyone has at least one good book in them, award-winning author and teacher, Danuta Urbikas, will lead an introductory presentation and workshop on how to start writing from reflection, gathering the gems of wisdom from life, and presenting such in a good memoir.  Based on the author’s award-winning memoir, My Sister’s Mother:  A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia (U of Wisconsin Press, 2019, 2016), the author will address issues of how to pick relevant anecdotal stories and expand them into meaningful content, deal with sensitive revelations involving others, handle meaningful revisions, using the differences between memoir and autobiography, and more.  Writing prompts and exercises will be offered along with a limited review of student works. Register. Meeting Room. Please register directly with Bacoa here.