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Jimmy Carter Discusses
Former US President Jimmy Carter discusses Christmas in Plains, his
latest memoir on this NPR Fresh Air segment.
Listen to it here.
Growing up Woman in Egypt
Leila Ahmed, author of A Border Passage, which looks at the place of women
in Islam, discusses her memoir on NPR's Fresh Air.
Listen to it here.
From Poverty to Ivy League
Deborah Dickerson discusses her memoir, "An American Story" on C-Span's
Book TV. This daughter of African American sharecroppers who migrated North
after World War ll recounts her story of leaving behind her poor St. Louis
neighborhood for the halls of Harvard and support of Ronald Reagan.
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One-Day Intensive Workshop
Topics covered: plot, structure, voice, description, character development,
point of view, and dialogue in this course from Gotham Writers' Workshop.
Memoirs vs. Journals
Marcie Hershman, author of the memoir Speak To Me, is offering a 2-day
"Breaking into Memoir" writing workshop at Brandeis University. You'll learn
how writing a memoir is different from keeping a journal because it demans
shape, pace, aim and characters whose interactions reveal something important.
Fundamentals of Life Stories Writing
You'll be introduced to the basics of creative writing as applied to life
stories as WritersOnlineWorkshops.com guides you along a journey of personal
discovery and the development of an individual and engaging writing style
through directed journals, hand-on writing exercises, and constructive critical
feedback.
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