Dirty Messy Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series
Learn to write your memoir with 25+ experts
Free Online Workshop Series
September 26 – 29, 2024
Explore memoir-writing from start to finish and learn from skilled memoirists and writing teachers – with sessions on outlining, overcoming writer’s block, craft, revision, promotion and more.
Join the Dirty Messy Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series, a free 4-day online event.
This workshop series features sessions from 25+ memoirists and writing teachers including:
- Jeannine Ouellette, Writing Teacher at Writing in the Dark, with Of Heat & Need & What It Takes: How Desire Propels Your Memoir And Brings It Alive For Readers
- Brooke Warner, Publisher, She Writes Press, with You Will Get Rejected: how not to let it stop you
- Jessica Waite, memoirist, with Memoir-Writing Process for “The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards”
- Rayya Liebich, Writer and Educator with Hermit Crab Essays: Finding freedom in forms
- Nurjahan Boulden, memoirist, storyteller, belly dance instructor (and social media superstar) with Writing About Family in Your Memoir: navigating code-switching, shame, cultural expectations and ethics
- Robin Barnett, Icon Media Group with Booking Media for Your Memoir (as a non-celebrity)
- And a whole lot (24) more
The best part? It’s entirely free!
You can get all the details about the Dirty Messy Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series over here, but as a quick overview:
- The Dirty Messy Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series will run from September 26 – 29.
- Each day will be filled with amazing, kind memoirists and writing teachers who are interested in helping you start, write and promote your memoir with a variety of sessions on craft of writing topics such as, writing yourself as a character, how to write about real people in your stories who are different from you and more!
- Supportive sessions on writing for neurodivergent brains, creative focus, the connection between writer’s block and the nervous system, and more.
- There’s a pop-up Facebook group where you can connect with other current and aspiring memoir-writers, ask the speakers questions, win prizes, and more.
- The event is free to attend, but after signing up you can choose to upgrade to the All Access Pass for bonus resources and an upgraded event experience, which includes long-term access to the workshop recordings.
For additional information or questions, please contact:
Janelle Hardy
jaha@janellehardy.com
Creator and founder of The Art of Personal Mythmaking, the Healing Through Writing Festival & the Dirty, Messy, Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series
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