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Writing Courses
Virginia Writers Association
Title: Gathering Threads, Weaving Memoir
by Nina Sichel
Your life is a story rich in imagery and resonance. Find meaning in the themes and patterns that run through your memories, and begin to create the tale only you can tell.
In this three-part workshop, you will explore some of the turning points and relationships that have shaped your life. You'll examine how identity is informed by experience--and how experience is transformed through your voice and perspective. You'll begin to weave the threads of plot and character and theme into a unifying narrative.
Between sessions, you will use your notebook to maintain a writer's journal, expanding on the exercises practiced in the group sessions and responding to additional writing prompts.
Come prepared to write--please bring your notebook and pen to every session, including the first one.
Dates: June 6, 13, and 20
Time: 7 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: The Conference Room at historic Elliot House, 323 South Fairfax St., adjacent to the Old Presbyterian Meeting House, in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. View map. Parking is available.
Fee: $95 members/$110 nonmembers
About the instructor:
Nina Sichel has published poetry, memoir and creative nonfiction. She is co-editor of Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global, a collection of essays about cross-cultural, international childhoods. It includes her own story of growing up American in Venezuela. Her work has appeared in The American Journal of Nursing, Among Worlds, International Educator, and elsewhere.
Her experience combines writing and publishing with teaching and designing educational programs. She has worked as an editorial assistant in New York and as a language teacher, counselor, and program director at various schools and community-based organizations in Michigan and Florida.
This course is limited to twelve attendees. Don't miss out. Register today.
