Your Story, Your Life: Intro to Memoir & Personal Essays

“By writing memoir and personal essays, we give form to our histories and make something of meaning and beauty that is uniquely ours,” says instructor Katharine Harer. "I love this genre because you can be yourself, complete with your idiosyncrasies, strong opinions, flashes of wisdom and crazy moments... more
April 08 - May 06
5 Mondays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

San Francisco, CA

Getting Your Toes Wet: An Introduction to Memoir Writing

Do you feel you have a story inside you, but you’re a little leery of getting thrown in the deep end? In this class, you’ll gently wade into the vast sea of memories and experiences you’ve been carrying around for your whole life... more
April 10 - May 08
5 Wednesdays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Berkeley, CA

Write from Real Life: Personal Essays & Memoirs

In this class you will plunge into the personal themes that make your real life stories uniquely yours. In the first half of this class, instructor Alison Luterman will give you writing exercises carefully designed to elicit the undertones and overtones that elevate events and anecdotes into the realm of art... more
April 09 - June 04
9 Tuesdays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Berkeley, CA

Writing Through Transitions

This five-week workshop will guide you through the intricacies of change, whether you want to explore a story from your past, such as a coming of age moment, or focus on something from your present, perhaps a career change, retirement or relocation, divorce or breakup, or aging... more
January 16 - February 13
5 Wednesdays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

San Francisco, CA

Jumpstart Your Memoir Writing!

Have you ever experienced the nagging feeling you ought to be writing down your life stories, but have simply lacked the time and the tools to do it? If so, this is the class to jumpstart your memoir-writing engine... more
February 16 - March 16
5 Saturdays

10:30am - 1:00pm

Berkeley, CA

Memoir Writing: Mine & Refine Your Memories

In this class we’ll focus on finding and shaping evocative stories from our own lives, stories that build from our specific and unique life events and move toward resonant, universal themes... more
February 16 - March 23
5 Saturdays

2:00pm - 4:30pm

San Francisco, CA

Memoir Master Class

The focus of the workshop is to encourage and guide experienced writers in creating, revising, and potentially publishing short, stand-alone works of memoir... more
January 13 - March 24
6 Sundays

2:00pm - 5:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Your Story, Your Life: Memoir & Personal Essays

“By writing memoir and personal essays, we give form to our histories and make something of meaning and beauty that is uniquely ours,” says instructor Katharine Harer. "I love this genre because you can be yourself, complete with your idiosyncrasies, strong opinions, flashes of wisdom and crazy moments... more
January 14 - March 11
9 Mondays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

San Francisco, CA

Write from Real Life: Personal Essays & Memoirs

In this class you will plunge into the personal themes that make your real life stories uniquely yours. In the first half of this class, instructor Alison Luterman will give you writing exercises carefully designed to elicit the undertones and overtones that elevate events and anecdotes into the realm of art... more
January 15 - March 12
9 Tuesdays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Berkeley, CA

Getting Your Toes Wet: An Introduction to Memoir Writing

Do you feel you have a story inside you, but you’re a little leery of getting thrown in the deep end? In this class, you’ll gently wade into the vast sea of memories and experiences you’ve been carrying around for your whole life... more
January 14 - February 11
5 Mondays

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Berkeley, CA