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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. WHEN: 5 mornings, Monday 9 - Friday 13 July, 9:30am - 1:00pm WHERE: The University of Auckland, Building No. 810, 1-11 Short Street, City Campus COST: $310.00 incl. GST Limited to 15 participants  Everybody has the skills to write their life story. Life Writing with Deborah Shepard is designed for people who have never written before and participants who already enjoy writing in other genres and want to try memoir.
Under Deborah’s gentle guidance you will experience a summer writing school like no other. You will have five blissful days to indulge your dream and write your heart out in a collaborative and supportive environment. WHEN: 5 mornings, Monday 15 - Friday 19 January, 9:30am - 1:00pm WHERE: The University of Auckland, Building No. 810, 1-11 Short Street, City Campus COST: $300.00 incl. GST Limited to 15 participants  Writers at work On the final evening of the 2016 Master Classes in Memoir, at the Michael King Writers Centre, I sat in the sitting room, beneath the portrait of New Zealand historian and biographer Michael King by Annette Isbey, and observed nine writers, their heads bowed in concentration, hands moving swiftly across the white page, writing with the timer on, fifteen minutes only, writing rapidly, as I have trained them to do, free of the censor judging their work, because they know that when the timer rings there will be additional time, immediately, to edit what they have just written.
The only sounds in the room were the rubbing of pens over paper and the fridge humming in the kitchen next door. Below in the garden mutabilis roses were still flowering in May amongst the pale purple and lilac velvet flowers of salvia Leucantha and the spikes of orange and pink dahlias while over the sweep of grass, above the road that winds down the volcanic cone of Takarunga, I could see the city shining across the slick of black water that is Waitemata harbour at night. Again and again I feel the magic of this special setting. Everybody has the skills to write their life story. Life Writing with Deborah Shepard is designed for people who have never written before and participants who already enjoy writing in other genres and want to try memoir.
Under Deborah’s gentle guidance you will experience a late Spring life writing workshop like no other. You will have five blissful days to indulge your dream and write your heart out in a collaborative and supportive environment. WHEN: 5 mornings, Monday 17 - Friday 21 July, 9:30am - 1:00pm WHERE: The University of Auckland, Building No. 810, 1-11 Short Street, City Campus COST: $285.00 incl. GST Limited to 10 participants Take a journey of self-exploration through the process of journalling. WHEN: 4 mornings, Saturday 22 April - 13 May, 9:30am - 2:00pm WHERE: The University of Auckland, Building No. 810, 1-11 Short Street, City Campus COST: NZD$265.00 incl. GST  We are living through increasingly turbulent times, in an age awash in digital content that is often edifying and conducive to creativity but equally it can be disruptive to concentration and to maintaining a calmer and more contemplative mode of living.
A journalling workshop with experienced tutor and journaller Deborah Shepard offers a quiet sanctuary where you can reconnect with your inner life and find out what you are thinking through writing exercises, and discussion and analysis of the form with reference to some of the great journallers. This workshop will appeal to people wanting to use the journal for self-exploration, or to develop formal writing skills for other projects, or to chronicle and preserve your daily observations of the world, from the humble and small, to the splendid and sublime. Deborah will be teaching her annual summer school of life writing through Lifelong Education at the University of Auckland from Monday 16 — Friday 20 January, 9.30am - 1pm daily. Her courses fill up quickly so don't miss out.
 View from the historic Signalman's Cottage, Michael King Writers' Centre, 2016. Photo: Josie Irving
 View from the writer's studio, Michael King Writers' Centre. Photo: Deborah Shepard
 When: Tuesday 23 June, 6pm
Where: Takapuna Library Cost: $5 ($3 members) Join us to hear Deborah Shepard speak in conversation with publisher, Linda Cassells about her recently published book, Giving Yourself to Life: A Journal of Pain, Hope and Renewal. Deborah is a biographer, teacher of memoir and a Michael King Writers’ Centre resident. ‘To anyone familiar with negotiating the parameters of pain, Deborah Shepard’s personal story will resonate loud and clear.’ - Wallace Chapman, TV and radio broadcaster. Refreshments start at 6pm with a 6.30pm opening. To reserve your place, email Helen Woodhouse or phone Takapuna Library on 09 890 4903 |
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January 2019
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