Memoir & Life-Writing

Another year gone and you've yet to start that memoir! We all have a tale to tell - but where to start and how to get your stories out of your head and into the world? What to include and what to leave out? Then there's the structure, and what about the truth? Relax - join this inspiring class and begin sorting it out Anna has this amazing ability to offer students insight to the greater implications of writing and to provide us with knowledge which can be applied far beyond the classroom - knowledge which may very well allow for the rewiring of your view of the past and thus the rewriting of your future. Her passion for her subject matter is evident and her sincere and captivating teaching style makes it inevitable that this passion is then transferred onto you and reflected in your work. Nazia, 2016 Writing about the living or recently dead raises some tricky issues: how will family and friends be affected? how much honesty can you get away with? whose life is it anyway? This course provides an ideal space to think about such questions. Blake Morrison, Author and Convenor of MA Life-Writing at Goldsmith Become part of a vibrant literary community of writers and learn more about events and opportunities for you as a writer. To hear more about the issues regarding Life Writing you can listen to the BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, Other People's Stories - hear course tutor Anna Derrig asking who has the right to tell someone else's story. Anna has worked in the media, in international development and in social and community. What are the aims of the course? To encourage self confidence in memoir and life writing. To enable you to develop appropriate skills and the necessary practice. To