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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.
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.