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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.
Maybe you want to preserve the stories of your life for your family, maybe you want to write them solely for yourself. 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.
This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this season!
Instructor Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels for adults and young adults, most recently An American Tune, and About Grace, and a memoir, A Commotion in Your Heart. She is the the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times travel section. Shoup is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Art Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. Currently, she is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center. and a creative writing faculty member of Art Workshop International in Assisi. She hosts the Substack newsletter Book Pilgrim.
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |
TAGS: | Writing Workshops for Adults | Writing Skills | Writing | Adults | #Adult |
The Brightwood Branch opened in 1901 as the sixth public library in Indianapolis. It served the Brightwood community at several locations along Station Street, one street west of its current North Sherman Avenue storefront site which opened in 1972. A 1996 renovation at this location doubled the size of the branch to 5,400 square feet. In 2020, a brand-new branch building, across the street from the previous branch, was completed and re-named as the Martindale-Brightwood Branch.