4-Week Memoir Writing Course… with Xanthi Barker

£200.00

A four-week memoir writing course looking at how to take care of yourself as a writer and how writing can take care of you. We will start by thinking about our internal barriers to writing and how to overcome them, and we will go on to learn observational skills and methods of remembering, think in depth about the texture of complex emotions, and consider the challenges, rewards and ethics of turning real life into prose.

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A four-week memoir writing course looking at how to take care of yourself as a writer and how writing can take care of you. We will start by thinking about our internal barriers to writing and how to overcome them, and we will go on to learn observational skills and methods of remembering, think in depth about the texture of complex emotions, and consider the challenges, rewards and ethics of turning real life into prose.