Join award-winning author Barbara Shoup for this memoir writing workshop, and start writing about your life. Participants in this class will work through a process of dredging up memories, identifying the ones that matter most in the story of their lives they want to tell, and consider focus, time frame, and structure to make a roadmap for their memoirs.
**This class takes place at Marian University. Once the class is confirmed, you will receive parking instructions and information on classroom ... view more »
Join award-winning author Barbara Shoup for this memoir writing workshop, and start writing about your life. Participants in this class will work through a process of dredging up memories, identifying the ones that matter most in the story of their lives they want to tell, and consider focus, time frame, and structure to make a roadmap for their memoirs.
**This class takes place at Marian University. Once the class is confirmed, you will receive parking instructions and information on classroom location. No walk-ins permitted.**
About the instructor:
Barbara Shoup is the author eight novels, including Night Watch, Wish You Were Here, Stranded in Harmony, Faithful Women, Vermeer’s Daughter, Everything You Want, An American Tune, and Looking for Jack Kerouac and the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times Travel Section. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. She is the former Executive Director of the Indiana Writers Center and is currently the Writer-in-Residence.
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