A 4-Week Online Memoir Workshop
Sundays, January 11 - February 1, 4 - 6 PM
How do we turn experience into story—emotion into motion? In this generative and reflective workshop, we’ll explore how the emotional arc gives memoir its pulse. Through guided exercises, readings, and supportive discussion, writers will learn to trace the emotional journey within their stories that highlight moments of resistance, revelation, and change. Together we’ll look at how vulnerability, tension, and honesty work as craft tools, not just confessions. By the end, participants will have a draft or revision of one emotionally resonant scene or essay, plus a clearer sense of their own narrative voice.
$185 Members/$315 Nonmembers
Emerson Whitney is the author of poetry books Daddy Boy, winner of the Maine Literary Book Award for Memoir and Heaven with a Kirkus starred review. Whitney has a PhD from USC and teaching experience at Goddard College and has work published in The Paris Review, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Adroit, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers, and more.
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Call 207-200-7180 and register with your VISA or MasterCard.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due two weeks prior to the workshop start date, at 9:00 a.m.
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