Writing & Teaching News

Spring and Summer 2024 Workshop Dates

May 5 (afternoon): The Gloucester Writers Center. “Writing for Your Comfort and Joy.” (in person)

Registration: Gloucesterwriters.org.

May 19 (afternoon) Beverly Public Library Author Fair (in person)

Details, directions: Beverlypubliclibrary.org.

May 29: The Irish Writers Center, Dublin. “Writing Your Personal Essay.” (virtual).

Registration: Irishwriterscentre.ie. Note: Check time zone for U.S. and Ireland/UK.

June 8: The New Hampshire Writers Project (statewide) Conference. “Truth or Dare: Writing about Family in Our Non-Fiction or Memoir Essays.” (in person; all day)

Registration: nhwritersproject.org

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At the Writing Tips Page: “Writing True Stories about Folks and Family”

American author Anne Lamott that if people didn’t want to be written about, they should have behaved better. But by maligning them—at least without thinking hard about your motivations in doing so—aren’t you now behaving badly, too?

Read the post about nonfiction writing, memoir and truth telling.