Maybe you want to preserve the stories of your life for your family\, maybe you want to write them solely for yourse lf. Maybe you feel you have a story to tell that the wider world needs to know. Memory Workshop offers practical insights about memoir writing and a series of writing exercises to help you identify the moments of your life worth telling and find the voice to bring them to life on the page. \ ;
\nThis workshop is presented in partnership with the \;Indiana Writers Center. Check out < a href="https://attend.indypl.org/events?n=60&\;term=writing&\;a=Adu lts&\;r=days">other writing workshops at library branches this seas on!
\nInstructor Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels for adul ts and young adults\, most recently \;An American Tune\, and& nbsp\;About Grace\, and a memoir\, \;A Commotion in Your Heart. \;She is the \;the co-author of Novel Ideas: Conte mporary Authors Share the Creative Process and \;Story Matter s. \;Her short fiction\, poetry\, essays and interviews have appe ared in numerous small magazines\, as well as in The Writer and The New Yo rk Times travel section. Shoup is the recipient of numerous grants from th e Indiana Art Commission\, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Counc il of Indianapolis\, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer F ellowship and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Aw ard. \;Her young adult novels\, \;Wish You Were Here \;and \;Stranded in Harmony \;were selected as American L ibrary Association Best Books for Young Adults. \; \;Vermeer&r squo\;s Daughter \;was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book f or Young Adults. \;Currently\, she is the Writer-in-Residence at the I ndiana Writers Center. and a creative writing faculty member of \;Art Workshop International \;in Assisi. She hosts the Substack newsletter& nbsp\;Book Pilgrim. \;
\n\nGet ready for this writing wor kshop with some book lists about writing:
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