Classes

Immerse yourself in the visceral power of sensory detail to breathe energy and vitality into your story with a master of the senses. Renowned for her lush, evocative prose, Fitch (author of White Oleander), teaches how to tap into sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to create scenes that are not just remembered but felt.This class will help writers move beyond summary into embodiment—infusing their narratives with texture, atmosphere, and emotional depth. Through close reading and generative exercises, participants will learn to write memoir that resonates in the body as much as the mind.

Join Susan Ito for a class about all the forms your story might take before it becomes a memoir that’s ready to publish. Before Susan published her memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, it was a screenplay and a novel. Many writers find comfort in other ways to tell their story—whether to distance themselves from the fallout, or because the truth is something that needs to be waded into. In this session, Susan will talk about how other forms can provide inspiration and can be stepping stones on the journey. She’ll talk about how diaries and journals, photos and artifacts, and other source materials offer inspiration and motivation. If you’re piecing your story together and looking for support, ideas, and inspiration, this class will encourage and catapult you. 

Maggie Smith invites memoir writers to break free from linear narratives and traditional structures in order to find the shape that best serves their story and their truth. Known for her innovative use of white space, fragmentation, and poetic language in her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Smith encourages writers to trust intuition over chronology. This class explores how form itself can become a vessel for meaning—mirroring memory, emotion, and the nonlinear ways we experience life.

Theme holds your story together. Theme is a reader’s North Star. Praised for his depth and clarity in his memoir, Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace will teach how to identify and deepen the central themes that gives your memoir its emotional spine—threads that bind disparate moments into a narrative whole. This class will help writers shape stories in a way that contains the writing to a particular issue or subject while still being expansive and universal. Writers will leave with a clearer sense of what their story is truly about—and why that matters.

Confront the complex and often uncomfortable process of rendering the self on the page—not as a static identity, but as a dynamic, evolving character. Drawing from her own fearless approach to truth-telling, Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down, will guide writers through techniques that move beyond confession and toward deep narrative insight. This class is for writers ready to interrogate their own roles in the stories they tell, and to write with the kind of vulnerability that creates resonance and connection.

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