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SUMMER Online: Micro Memoir Workshop II w Matthew Dickman | July 12 – Aug 9 FULL — WAIT LIST ONLY
July 12, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$215 – $242The smallest moment can profoundly change your life, a smell briefly caught on a walk can send you back in time, objects hold whole multi-histories and as the writer Jay Ponteri says “memories nest inside other memories”. In this 5 week class we will be exploring memory and the tools of the memoir genre to write our own “Micro-Memoirs”. These will be 1-5 page prose pieces. We will also be reading a lot of outside examples of this and writing together in class. This class is open to all writers, whether you identify as a poet, fiction, or creative non-fiction writer. Whoever you are let’s all explore together! | Maximum: 12 writers
NOTE: Writers may take this class without having previously taken Micro Memoir I.
NOTE: To protect everyone during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re offering this course via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you’ll receive a Zoom “invitation,” from the instructor. Click the link…follow the simple directions about the settings for your microphone and in-computer video, and you’re immediately in the “room” for the workshop. For critique workshops, instructors will communicate with students about the process of sharing work. For more generative workshops, students will be writing together while on Zoom.