2025 Winter Memoir Workshop with Elizabeth Diggs

This in person workshop will be held for eight consecutive weeks.

The personal memoir has become one of our most popular genres. Every life is a compelling and unique story. Sharing your life story with a group of interested members of the workshop is a moving and gratifying experience. Every level of writing experience is welcome, and the use of mediums such as photographs, poetry, songs, diary entries and more are ways to enhance your story if you choose.

This course is limited to 12 participants (minimum of 8).

Elizabeth Diggs is a playwright whose plays include Grant and Twain, Nightingale, Close Ties, Goodbye Freddy, American Beef, Dumping Ground, Priceless, How to Plant a Rose, and Custer’s Luck, produced off-Broadway and at regional theaters. She was Professor of Dramatic Writing at Tisch/NYU. She is the book writer for the musical Mirette, with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmdt, and wrote for the TV drama St. Elsewhere. Her honors and awards include a Guggenheim, NEA, Los Angeles DramaLogue award, the CBS / FDG prize, Kennedy Center grant for new American plays, the Edgerton Foundation grant, and runner-up for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.