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| Age Groups | Adult, Teen |
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VIRTUAL EVENT
You don’t have to be famous to write memoir; you just have to have lived! Each of us carries a lifetime of memories buried under layers of life. Writing memoir brings those hidden gems to the surface. The genre takes many forms – poem, essay, anecdote, magazine/newspaper article, podcast, short story or book – but whatever you write there’s an art to unearthing story ideas that will resonate with the human condition. It doesn’t matter if you have a less than perfect memory. It’s a skill set that can be learned. All a writer really needs is the courage to start!
This workshop is part of the Write@Wright Series supported by the Wright Library Foundation.
Joanne Huist Smith worked as a reporter for the Dayton Daily News for 17 years writing stories about events that shaped the greater-Dayton community. In 2009, she received an Ohio Associated Press Award for Best Community Service for a package of stories on heroin’s destructive path through neighborhoods. Smith retired from the newspaper in 2012, after signing a book deal with Harmony Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, to write the New York Times bestselling memoir, The 13th Gift. She currently teaches journalism and creative writing at Dayton’s Stivers School for the Arts.