Getting Started on Your Story Workshop
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 from 6:30-8 p.m. EST
Workshop fee: $79 + HST
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This is a 90-minute workshop designed for absolute beginners who would like to familiarize themselves with the art of memoir and start thinking about a story they might like to write and tell from their lives. By the end of the workshop, participants will have completed (at the very least) the opening line to a story from their lives.
I’ll guide you through the process, you’ll be in a lively group with others who are interested in memoirs and I can promise it’ll be a joyful, creative (and painless!) experience.
It may even prompt you to start to tackle a larger memoir writing project.
This workshop is also available to community organizations and volunteer, church, and corporate groups,
Your workshop leader:
Anne Bokma is an award-winning journalist, author, workshop leader and the founder of the 6- Minute Memoir, a live storytelling series in her hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. More than 300 individual true-life tales have been shared in front of thousands of audience members at more than two dozen events since 2013 and the event has raised more than $50,000 for local charities.
Anne is the recipient of the 2020 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Writing. Her memoir, My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life won the nonfiction book award and Kerry Schooley award in the 2020 Hamilton Literary Awards.