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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Memoir Writing Workshop – ZOOM ONLY

Saturday, July 18
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

REGISTER HERE  or Contact: 203-576-7400, #7  for ZOOM LINK

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!

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.
Burroughs-Saden Library, 3rd floor
Jaime Pettit
Jaime Pettit serves as an Assistant Archivist at the Bridgeport History Center at the Bridgeport, Connecticut Public Library. She received a Masters' in Information Science at the University of Michigan and a Certification in Museum Studies at Harvard University. She has previously worked with the University of Michigan and Arizona State University's departments of archeology. Pettit's current projects combine her love for both history and writing to highlight interesting and lesser-known stories from Bridgeport and Connecticut.