Under Deborah’s gentle guidance you will have five blissful days to indulge your dream and begin your life writing project in a collaborative and supportive environment.
WHEN: 5 x sessions, Monday 20 - 24 January 2020, 9:30am - 1:00pm WHERE: The University of Auckland, City Campus Course outline Session One: Getting Started
Who should attend? This course is designed for: new writers, people who are interested in writing and are newcomers to the genre people who want to discover their writing voice people who want to record their stories for their family people who want to write and publish their life story people who want to explore their inner world and express their thoughts and feelings and observations and transform them into literature young and older writers people who have written in another genre such as fiction or poetry, or non-fiction and who want to explore memoir. Writing memoir involves a balance between capturing your own memories on the page and writing biographical accounts of the people, including the ancestors, who have left an imprint on your life.
WHEN: 5 X sessions, Monday 7 - Friday 11 September, 9:30am - 1pm WHERE: The University of Auckland, City Campus Course outline Writing memoir involves an intricate interplay between writing down and preserving your own memories and constructing biographical accounts of the people, including the ancestors, who have left an imprint on your life. On this course, you will receive tuition on the fundamentals of writing memoir and biography and its ethical implications along with techniques that will assist you to write with flair and originality about the key figures, both living and from the past, who have influenced and helped shape your life. It is suitable for participants who have not yet completed Life Writing 1. Session one: Arriving here – the importance of preserving my story and the family history.
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July 2024
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