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Beginning the Memoir
Join Thomas Larson for this three-hour workshop in beginning the memoir. We start off by discussing the significant differences between traditional autobiography and contemporary memoir. Next we explore memoir’s demanding questions: where do I begin, what is my focus, how do I discover the emotional truth of my story, how do I write about the living? With numerous writing prompts, we look at the mainstays of the memoir form: truth-telling and self-disclosure; sudden versus long-ago memoir; good and bad therapeutic writing; and the importance of metaphor and myth in the personal life. The goal of the workshop is for each writer to have a clear and compelling focus for a memoir. This workshop is intended for those who are just beginning a memoir. Participants can then sign up for "Keep the Memoir Going," a six-week course which begins March 3.
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Thomas Larson writes personal essays, memoir, nonfiction, and literary criticism. He is the author of Memoir and the Memoirist, from Swallow Press, the literary imprint of Ohio University Press and editor of A Year in Ink, SDW, Ink's first anthology. He is a contributing writer for the San Diego Reader where, since 1999, he has specialized in narrative nonfiction. Larson’s work has appeared in many literary magazines and journals, among them The Gettysburg Review, Southwest Review, Antioch Review, The Potamac Review, Counterpunch, Chicago Reader, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Fourth Genre, and the Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1997. 
