Coast Chapter: A Good Story Well Told – Memoir Workshop with Judith Barrington

Memoirist Judith Barrington will conduct a workshop on Saturday, June 21st at the Newport Public Library from 2:00 – 4:00 pm (doors open at 1:30 pm). She will lead participants through the characteristics of literary memoir, including the sticky question of “truth.” She will discuss the techniques that memoirists may borrow from fiction as well as poetry, and address how to look back in time at our life stories, identifying ways to use language and craft to hold it all in place.
Participants are encouraged to bring a notebook and pen to practice a few memoir beginnings.
On Friday, June 20, at 4:00 pm, Barrington will read from her latest memoir, Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs at the Newport Public Library. She will talk about the process of creating the collection. Q & A will follow.

About Judith Barrington

Barrington is the author of the bestselling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, used by writers and writing programs across the U.S. Her Lifesaving: A Memoir won the Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for memoir. She is the author of five collections of poetry. Barrington taught in the MFA writing program at the University of Alaska and in workshops across the U.S., England and Spain. She and her wife live in Portland, Oregon.

http://www.judithbarrington.com/

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