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THIS THURSDAY
5/21 AT 7PM
BRAIN, CHILD MAGAZINE CELEBRATES 15 YEARS!
at the Cobb's Mill Inn
12 Old Mill Road, Weston
Free and Open to the Public
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COMING UP SATURDAY
MAY 30TH
Writing Your Memoir: What, Why, How...and How To Make Readers Care
with Jessica Bram
Writing a memoir is more than just telling your story. The most successful memoirs, while inviting readers in an intimate way into another person's world, also manage to engage readers in a dramatic story that reads like a page-turning novel. This workshop will begin by considering the question of why write memoir, who wants to read it, and why readers care. It will then present the literary techniques that make the memoir engaging and interesting. Finally, we will discuss how to recount one's story along a narrative arc by using a storyboarding technique.
Jessica Bram is a writer, radio commentator and author of Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a JoyfulJourney (Health Communications, Inc. 2009), which won first prize in the Connecticut Press Club's Annual Award Contest's Adult Nonfiction (Biography & Autobiography) category. Her radio commentaries, which have twice earned her first prize in the radio commentary category of the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists' "Excellence in Journalism" competition, are frequently heard on the National Public Radio station WSHU during NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Jessica's personal essays have been published and syndicated in national and regional newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, NY Times HERS column, Child Magazine, Country Accents and the Gannett Newspapers.
