In this all-levels workshop with award-winning writer and editor Melisse Gelula, we'll explore using personal source materials—an old letter, a family photo, medical records, a voicemail, etc.,—as a tool of discovery to help deepen and structure your writing. Together we’ll look at examples of how source material functions in the gorgeous memoirs of Natasha Trethewey and Suzanne Scanlon. Then we'll identify our own objects of personal resonance, and tap into sense memories to draft short scenes around them. Attendees will receive ideas and motivation for continuing their draft at home. If time allows, some attendees may have the opportunity to share their new work.
Please bring a pen and notebook. You do not need to bring any objects to class—we will be working from memory.
Ages 18 and up. No formal writing experience necessary
Date
Jun 22, 2024, 9:45am to 11:00am
Featuring
Melisse Gelula
Melisse Gelula is the founder of Memoiring, a book club and writing community that hosts notable memoirists for events and workshops, and the co-founder of pioneering media company Well+Good (successfully acquired in 2018). Her work has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, Vogue, Electric Literature, and Grand Journal, as well as on Good Morning America and CBS This Morning. Melisse is currently writing a memoir about being raised by a child psychologist who starts to hear voices. She lives in the Western Catskills and works with writers one-on-one and in groups. You can follow Melisse at https://memoiring.substack.com/ and on Instagram @MelisseJoy and @Memoiring.
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