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SUMMARY:How to Write a Memoir with Pamela Marin author of Motherland
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a memoir brewing but need a little guidance to help get in on the page? \nJoin acclaimed author and memoirist Pamela Marin Saturday October 3rd from 10:30-12:30 to help you jumpstart your own memoir or get back to the project you’ve been trying to finish. \nAfter a brief discussion of the differences between memoir and autobiography\, we’ll work through a series of writing exercises to help focus and expand on the elements of your life story that will engage readers. \nPamela Marin was a staff writer for the Orange County Register\, and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Tribeca Trib. Her reporting and essays have appeared in Playboy\, Redbook\, Parents\, AARP Magazine\, Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines. One of her essays caught the eye of a producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show; Pamela wrote and recorded a piece that was featured on the show in 2001. Her memoir\, Motherland\, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s best books of 2005. Her screenplay adaptation of the book Tommy’s Honour opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016 and won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Feature Film. \nPamela’s memoir is in the Forbes library’s collection\, and copies are available at Amazon and independent bookstores.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/how-to-write-a-memoir-with-pamela-marin
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Craft Workshop,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October with Jason Prokowiew
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 6th\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jason Prokowiew\, at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nJason Prokowiew received a PEN America and Fulbright Scholar Award for his memoir War Boys\, about his Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during WWII. His writing has appeared in The North American Review\, The Guardian\, Salon\, Roxane Gay’s “The Audacity\,” and on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage\, where his piece “Sing” is the most watched in the show’s history. He lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-with-jason-prokowiew
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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