Memoir Writing Seminar with Jennifer Armstrong
- 6D Living
- 4 days ago
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Focus on learning key creative writing techniques to empower you to say what you want to say; to express yourself clearly and to be heard. During the four sessions you will explore the theme of My Life in Three Meals and each session will include a time to write and discuss.
Memoir Writing Seminar -My Life in Three Meals
Instructor: Jennifer Armstrong
Start Date: Tuesday, June 9th
End Date: Tuesday, June 30th
Meetings: Weekly online via zoom
Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST
About the Memoir Writing Seminar
In this writing seminar, we will use a workshop format to explore different techniques for making our writing vivid and memorable; this means completing in-class and homework exercises, and reading them aloud. By choosing the theme of three memorable meals we will dive into description, word choice, and "voice," or the quality that makes your writing distinctly yours, as individual to you as your handwriting.
Short writing assignments will be explained at the end of each session, and participants will be encouraged to complete and send them to Jennifer by FRIDAY, following the zoom session for individual feedback so they can revise as needed before the next session. Each Zoom class will consist of a 40-minute workshop on zoom, followed by a twenty-minute writing break on our own, and then another 40 minute class on zoom.
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IS 8!*
There is limited space for this workshop so please do not register without checking your calendar to ensure that you will be able to attend all four sessions. Once the maximum limit has been met, you will still be able to register for the waiting list option in case someone changes their mind or if their life becomes too lifey - and we all know too well how that can happen. All we ask that you think about this as you consider registering. Thank you.
*Participation is predicated on participants being willing to keep their camera on as well as share aloud both the class writing exercises as well as the weekly writing assignments; all participants will be asked to share at least once during our 4 sessions together. Please do not register if you feel you will not be able to actively participate; this means sharing your own writing as well as offering constructive feedback for your fellow writers during the seminar. Thank you.
Jennifer Armstrong has utilized multiple types of narrative structures, Jennifer believes that a short story is only one of many narrative structures. We create narrative with jokes, ballads, tales, novels, poems, anecdotes, etc... While there are many satisfactions to be found in the conventional beginning-middle-end narrative that is common in short fiction for kids. After 9/11, she wrote that books can be the "enemy of violent zealotry" and work against chaos and fear.
Jennifer Armstrong is the author of numerous award-winning picture books and novels. She is the winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. Many of her books have been designated as Notable Books by the American Library Association and the International Reading Association.
Best known for writing historical fiction, she has also been successful in creating picture books, easy readers, chapter books, young adult novels, as well as nonfiction.
Her works include Hugh Can Do and Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat (both ALA Notable books); The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan (a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book); and Black-Eyed Susan (a New York Public Library Best Book). Her first novel, Steal Away, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable book, and a Golden Kite Honor book. Other titles include Pockets, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Magnus at the Fire, Photo by Brady, and Once Upon a Banana.
Jennifer Armstrong has spent her life making things; she has had a long career of writing books for children, decades of gardening, painting, making music, and cooking. A 2023 graduate of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies course in Plant- Based Nutrition, she has also combined her interest in sustainability with her love of food by learning how to can and dehydrate, saving as much of the local harvest as possible for use throughout the year. She lives in upstate New York.
Jennifer is both a blog writer and event moderator at 6D Living. Her blog post series 365 in 365 explores how we can all diversify and improve our microbiome. Jennifer also helped to moderate and served as an administrator in our 365 in 365 game. Jennifer now expands her services to our community by offering this wonderful new writing workshop.
Jennifer offers her books through independent book stores and you can explore her work by searching for an independent bookstore near you. "Independent bookstores are the heart and soul of the book world." - Jennifer
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