Join author Jane Roy Brown in a six-week class to explore your life through writing in this memoir workshop hosted by the Jones Library.
Writing allows us to find order and meaning in the tumble of daily events that make up a life. It offers a way to honor those who nurtured us, to tell the truth about a painful past, to capture memories passed down from grandparents. Whatever they are, our stories are ours alone—nobody else can write them. In weekly two-hour meetings and take-home assignments, participants will sift for memories, choose one to write about, learn storytelling craft, and complete a brief story from their life.
This six week series will be held on Saturday mornings from 10 am until noon, beginning on February 6, 2016 and running through March 12. Participants must able to attend all six sessions. As space is limited, pre-registration is required. Contact Janet Ryan at ryanj@joneslbrary.org or 413/ 259-3223 to register. This series is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Jones Libraries.
Jane Roy Brown is an award-winning writer, editor, and landscape historian. With Susan Haltom, Jane is co-author of One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place(University Press of Mississippi, September 2011). Jane also wrote Drawing Lessons: Forty Years of Design Education at the Conway School (lulu.com, November 2011), and edited her father’s successful veterinary memoir,While You’re Here, Doc (Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 2006). Her primary skill of writing has enabled her to pursue diverse subject interests as an author, a freelance writer for periodicals, an editor, a writing coach, and a workshop leader.
For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.
