- DURATION 1 hr
Event Description
You don’t have to be famous to write a memoir. Our lives are full of stories, we just have to know how to tell them. Whether you’re writing about your own life or someone else’s, join Sunday Times best-selling biographer Kathleen Jones to find out where to begin, what to avoid, and how to make the story as vivid and compelling as possible.
Please bring a pen/pencil and paper with you.
It would also be useful to bring a photograph or an object that has good memories for you. If you don’t have one, then just bring your memories!
- Duration: 1 hr
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (no replay available)
Meet the Host, Kathleen Jones
Kathleen Jones is a poet, novelist and author of eight literary biographies. Her account of the lives of the women associated with the Lake Poets, ‘A Passionate Sisterhood’ was a Virago Classic and won the Barclays Bank prize for biography. After graduating from Bristol University, Kathleen worked in broadcast journalism and has taught creative writing in a number of universities. She is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and in 2012 was elected a Fellow of the English Association for services to literature. She has also published four collections of poetry and a travel journal.
Resources
Writing a Memoir: Workshop has supplementary learning materials provided by the event host. Once you book an event, you will get access to these resources.
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