Winter Memoir Workshop with Elizabeth Diggs

This in person workshop will be held for eight consecutive weeks at the Spencertown Academy.

Dates:
February 19 – April 9, Thursdays, 3-5pm

Registration required:
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Pricing:
Spencertown Academy Members: $210
Non Members: $240

The personal memoir has become one of our most popular genres. Every life is a compelling and unique story. In this workshop, explore how to shape and explore your stories. Put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and craft the memories you’ve been waiting to tell, with expert tutelage!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).

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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.