IMF 52314 Nonfiction: The Memoir Essay W

Instructor

Patricia Feeney

Class Type

Craft & Workshop

Course Description

Memoirs—both short and long form—capture an event or time period in the author’s experience. This course explores key fundamentals of the memoir form: voice, veracity, reflection, and sense details. Drawing on the text and examples of memoirists’ essays, the craft lessons lay the foundation for the short-form memoir: a four-to-eight-thousand-word essay written for this course and submitted to the class workshop. The class will examine the work for its success in capturing the elements of the form and ways in which the author may strengthen the essay for publication.