The Restorative Power of Memoire Writing Workshop 2021

9 Main Street,Bowdoinham ME 04008

30 January, 2021

Description

Join us for this beginners workshop in writing to discover the pillars of memoir writing! Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. --Frederick Buechner The First Slice (FS) is a workshop designed expressly for the reticent writer. If you’re a beginner who struggles putting pen to paper or fingertips to keys, this workshop is for you. We will mine for where we should begin and tackle three pillars of memoir—character, time and place. At the end of this workshop you’ll have discovered the organizing point(s) of tension that propels your character to move toward what she wants. Ideally, you’ll be primed to soldier on in your endeavor to tell your story. This workshop will be taught by an MFA with 2 published novels and one in the making. The writer May Sarton claims that the only way through pain is to “absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means.” She unpacks more of her belief regarding psychic pain by continuing to explain that “to close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth, and nothing that happens to us, even the most terrible shock, is unusable, and everything has somehow to be built into the fabric of the personality.” Let’s find our deepest truth, and figure out where we want to make the first slice in our story. The first cut’s the deepest. This is our second round with this class which was sold out in a few days for the Dec 2020 class. Course Instructor: Shellie Leger Shellie Leger is a native Mainer who returned to Oxford Hills in 2013. She lives in West Paris on a small farm where she works as a disability advocate and writes fiction. Shellie holds an MFA in fiction writing from Stone Coast. She has published two novels and is completing her third and teaches at Feathered Ink Due to COVID 19 restrictions, we will be limited to 4 participants and 1 instructor per class. Classes require that you COVID self check before attending, and wear a mask in the studio at all times.