Instructor: Judith Huge
Monday - Friday
August 10 - 14
10am - 12pm
5 sessions at Edgewood Farm

Memoir pulls meaning out of a sea of disconnected facts, turning fragments into a work of art that binds writers and readers in deep connection and mutual understanding.

From a review of Jerry Wexler’s, The Memoir Revolution

Memoir pulls meaning out of a sea of disconnected facts, turning fragments into a work of art that binds writers and readers in deep connection and mutual understanding. From a review of Jerry Wexler’s, The Memoir Revolution The art of memoir is writing your story so readers can come to unearth their own truths. Carefully woven storytelling transforms private memory into a kind of communal experience where a reader isn’t merely reading events but emotionally inhabiting them. In this workshop you will be working closely with each other and with your own writing to increase the chance this happens. Techniques include but are not limited to launching your story from the first pages, creating a three-tiered map to keep both you and your reader from getting lost, researching to expand both your own story and your reader’s response, revising for resonance, cultivating seeds for an on-going writing life. Each day you will have the opportunity to share work-in-progress or create your own new work based on prompts provided in the class. This personal involvement with others and with your own work can help alleviate the anxiety of writing, encourage self-discovery, and even provide the satisfaction that comes from knowing that you are at last seeing yourself as a “writer.”

Judith Huge has spent over 40 years developing innovative approaches to teaching writing.  As president of her own national consulting firm, teacher of both undergraduate and graduate-level college courses, and director of writing workshops across the country, she has made a difference in the way thousands of people find, craft, and promote their writing voices.  Former board chair of the International Women’s Writing Guild based in New York, she has taught for summer conferences at many colleges as well as for many years at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Recently moved to Maryland, for the past ten years, she has conducted writing workshops for the OLLI Program at the University of South Florida. Published internationally in Traveler’s Tales, she is co-author of 101 Ways You Can Help, a guide for providing thoughtful support to those who are grieving.

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