Summer School: Intro to Memoir

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Wed 18 January 2017 – 10:00 AM to Wed 18 January 2017 – 4:00 PM

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Lee Kofman

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EARLY, EMERGING

Discuss the role of emotional honesty in writing about ourselves and learn some of the basics of this popular writing genre.

Discover how to find the right theme or focus, how to structure your life story so that it makes for engaging reading, how to turn yourself and the people in your life into compelling characters, and how to seduce your readers by vividly describing your experiences.

You will learn

how to think about your life in literary terms
how to describe your experiences vividly
how to apply narrative conventions to your life story
about the differences between people in real life and the same people ‘on the page’
about the ethics of memoir

About Lee Kofman

Lee Kofman is an author of four books, including her memoir about non-monogamy, ‘The Dangerous Bride’. Her work has been widely published in Australia, the UK, Scotland, Israel, Canada and the US, including in ‘Best Australian Stories’, ‘Best Australian Essays’ and ‘Meanjin’. Lee has been mentoring writers for more than 10 years. She has been a blogger-in-residence for Writers Victoria and her personal blog was a finalist for Best Australian Blogs 2014.

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