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    Enrich Your Life! Writing Memoir and Personal Essay: Turning True Life Stories into Art

    Presented by Colorado College Summer Festival of the Arts at Colorado College - Armstrong Hall

    July 28, 2012


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    Enrich Your Life! Writing Memoir and Personal Essay: Turning True Life Stories into Art
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    The paradox of writing personal narrative is this: Telling our stories is in our DNA and comes naturally, until we sit down to write them. In this class, we will look at how a wide variety of authors — from Anne Lamott to Ernest Hemingway — have approached the memoir, and how the best personal narrative works. Through discussions of exemplary samples from this burgeoning and multi-faceted genre, and warming up with in-class...

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    The paradox of writing personal narrative is this: Telling our stories is in our DNA and comes naturally, until we sit down to write them. In this class, we will look at how a wide variety of authors — from Anne Lamott to Ernest Hemingway — have approached the memoir, and how the best personal narrative works. Through discussions of exemplary samples from this burgeoning and multi-faceted genre, and warming up with in-class writing exercises, we will turn on the circuits of memory, discover what we really want to write about, and get writing. “Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.” — Roger Angell
    Kathryn Eastburn is the author of two published books of literary nonfiction, was co-founder and editor of The Colorado Springs Independent, and writes a personal column, The Middle Distance, each week for KRCC public radio. She teaches journalism and creative nonfiction writing at The Colorado College and is a faculty member of Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
    Armstrong Hall, Room 234.


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    Colorado College - Armstrong Hall

    14 E. Cache La Poudre
    Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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    $100 (lunch not included)


    General Day and Time Info:

    9 a.m. - 5 p.m.


    Phone: 719-389-6098


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