I was 13 at the time, so it was a combination of dealing with loss and coming of age. Some common memoir themes surround the following topics:ĭo one of those topics (and associated themes) apply to your memoir? What statement does your memoir make about this topic?įor example, I wrote a memoir about losing my mother to cancer. Your story’s theme can help clarify what you’ve learned. If you’re not sure what lessons you’ve learned, focus on what your story is about. Many people use memoirs as a time of self-reflection and even therapy. What will the reader learn from your story?įigure out what lessons you learned from going through the event that is documented in your memoir. A memoir gives you the opportunity to dig deep into a pivotal event or explore how you felt, why you felt it, and the lessons you learned. What event would take up at least one chapter of your autobiography? Take that chapter and expand it into an entire book. Isn’t that so liberating? Over the course of your life, you can write several memoirs about the different events that shaped who you are.
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Not sure how to whittle down your epic life into a measly memoir? Remember, you don’t have to write just one memoir. It’s much more impactful, even for public figures, to write about key, transformative events in their lives.
Unless you’re a public figure, very few people are interested in reading about your life from cradle to almost grave. Peter, Minnesota, with her family.But, it would be a mistake to write about everything that you’ve experienced in your life at one time. Her work has earned the Tamarack Award and Speakeasy Prize, as well as Midwest Selections Pick, several Minnesota Book Award nominations, and two Minnesota State Arts Board grants.įeatured reviews have appeared in People magazine and “Weekend Edition” on National Public Radio. Helget was selected as a Barnes and Nobles “Discover Great New Writers” and “Featured Authors” and has starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly. Nicole Helget is the author of a memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways (Borealis Books) two novels, The Turtle Catcher and Stillwater (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and three middle-grade novels, Horse Camp, co-authored with Nate LeBoutiller (Egmont), Wonder at the Edge of the World, and the forthcoming Fern’s Grove (Little, Brown and Company).
Tuesday, July 12 | Tuesday, July 26 | Saturday, July 30Īll summer Tuesday sessions meet 6–9 p.m.Īll summer Saturday sessions meet 10 a.m.–noon Tuesday, June 7 | Tuesday, June 21 | Saturday, June 25 Held at the Loft at Open Book | all times listed in US Central Time These meetings include one introductory meeting before the program kicks off in February and one manuscript consultation session with Nicole after the program concludes (and you submit your final manuscript) in December this meeting must take place before February 28, 2023. The online cohort will meet via live weekly video meetings over Zoom.Įach student will also meet one-on-one with Nicole Helget four times over the course of the year. The plan is that the in-person cohort will meet at Open Book, in a Loft classroom, beginning in February 2022 if issues arise beyond the Loft’s control that makes this impossible (as they did in 20 with the global pandemic), meetings will take place online via Zoom.
Participants will meet weekly as a cohort during the winter/spring term (12 weeks February–April), biweekly with additional Saturday meetings during the summer months (June–August) and weekly again during the fall term (12 weeks September–December). 2022 Creative Nonfiction and Memoir Writing Project
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