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The Heart and Craft of Memoir Workshop

Writing Workshop in New Jersey
January 12-15, 2024
Led by Anndee Hochman

Locate the touch-points of your life—sorrowful, hilarious, indelible, profound—and turn them into thoughtfully-crafted prose. We’ll tap into our senses, mine our memories and practice using imagery, detail, tone, pacing and structure. Stunning excerpts by a range of writers will give us inspiration and a chance to examine the “clockworks”—that is, what makes a strong memoir tick. In exploring the “heart” of memoir, we’ll also touch on questions of authenticity, compassion, memory, truth-telling and the ethics of writing about living people.

*Limited to just 10 participants.*

 

“Anndee’s memoir workshop exceeded my expectations. She taught us strategies for writing about our real life experiences and helped me unlock forgotten memories. I was able to go beyond writing what I already knew.”
~ Sarah, Memoir Participant, Chittenango, NY

 

Anndee Hochman

Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. In addition to her weekly column, “The Parent Trip,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Anndee’s work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Purple Clover, Broad Street Review, the Moravian University magazine and numerous anthologies, including the recent Best Short Stories of Philadelphia. She is the author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). She is also a six-time Moth Story Slam winner and appeared last fall in This Is My Brave, an ensemble performance about experiences with mental health and illness; her story was about panic attacks. For more than 25 years, Anndee has taught writing to people of all ages in schools, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Visit her website and read an essay by Anndee.