Workshop Your Memoir
Dates/Times:
Thursdays, May 13-June 17
6:30-8:30PM
Location:
First Person Arts offices
1 South Broad Street, 17th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tuition:
$250 General
$225 for First Person Arts members
Description:
This class is for those who have book-length manuscripts (in progress is fine, so you may have only a few chapters so far) that you’d like to workshop with a group of other writers.
Our focus will be in exploring the fundamental tenets of constructing an authentic self on the page. You’ll receive feedback on your work from the workshop facilitator and from the other participants. Our goal is to support you in crafting memorable and original prose, and in plumbing the depths of experience in order to deepen your connection to your own voice.
In this workshop, you will be a respondent as well as a writer, and that means that each week you will read and comment on the manuscripts of your fellow participants and respond to that work in class.
About the Instructor:
August Tarrier works as an editor and writing consultant, specializing in developing memoirs and novels and scholarly and academic projects. She has led writing workshops with community members, high school students, and Philadelphia secondary-school English teachers. August earned a Ph.D in contemporary literature from Temple University and she has taught creative-writing at Villanova University, at Temple University, at the University of Baltimore, and at the Camden High School for the Creative Arts. She has won several national awards for her short stories, including the Zoetrope Prize, and is currently at work on a novel.
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