Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Memoir Writing Workshop

Saturday, June 21
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

REGISTER HERE  or Contact: 203-576-7400, #7   [Class takes place live in the BHC, but Zoom alternative also available]

Wendy Wallace, M.F.A., leads the class which will include free form writing exercises and an exploration of the nature of memoirs, and examining voice and perspective.  Drop in any month!
The History Center has sponsored a Bridgeport Memoir Writing Class since 2002.  Our class has continued to write about memories not only of Bridgeport, but about the stories that we find have linked our lives. We all have shared landscapes of memories, common experiences in daily life.  Newcomers are welcome.  Please join us!

Wendy Elizabeth Wallace (she/they) is a queer disabled writer. She grew up in Buffalo, New York, and has landed in Connecticut by way of Pennsylvania, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Indiana. Wendy is the editor-in-chief of Peatsmoke Journal and the co-manager of social media and marketing for Split Lip Magazine. Her memoir and fiction have appeared  in The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, The New Orleans Review, The Los Angeles Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Brevity, and the anthology In-Between Spaces, among other places. Wendy is a professor of English at University of New Haven and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Purdue University.