Diving Deep: The Art of Memoir

Discover the life-changing potential of memoir writing in a workshop designed to take you deep into your heart and your past, to mine your own life for the stories that need telling.

Donofrio believes that writing heals. Writing exercises are designed to stimulate memories, which you will learn to craft into compelling stories. It’s in the revising, in the application of craft—scene writing, using specificity and reflection, moving around in time—that we are able to gain distance and reach deeper meaning, insight and understanding, compassion for ourselves and others, and ultimately transformation.

Through in-class writing prompts, overnight assignments, and sharing your work, you will not only learn craft but develop camaraderie and have fun. You may even find that what made you rage and cry now makes you laugh.

When we take the time to write about our lives we see, as Gerald Manley Hopkins put it so eloquently, “The deep down of things.” All that is required is a strong desire and the courage to write the truth.