5 Saturdays,  Feb. 25-March 31 (5 weeks, skip March 10) 2-4:30 pm
$185 members/$215 others San Francisco
Testimonials for Kathleen

Note: This is a beginner’s class. If you have already started a memoir and want guidance at an intermediate level, Kathleen also offers a Memoir Writing “Continuation” class.

Memoir is not reserved only for the rich and famous. In fact, beautiful and haunting memoirs—books and essays—grow out of our ordinary lives, carefully observed. Both the distant past and the not-so-long ago can be mined, remembered and re-created skillfully in writing. This class is a guide to the mining and refining process. “The gold of memoir,” says instructor Kathleen McClung, “combines the gifts of a novelist—vivid characters and settings, lively and suspenseful narration—with a poet’s introspection and close attention to language.

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