ARCHIVED EVENT: Ten Tips for Writing Great Memoir

August 21, 2024 | 12:00PM

The workshop will offer ten practical tips to help you refine your prose, deepen your understanding of the genre, and write stronger and more compelling Creative Nonfiction. Learn to turn lived experience into literary art, apply fiction techniques to enhance your work, and experiment with form, structure, tense and voice. Discussion will focus on finding your theme, confronting your fears, and falling in love with revision.

Ayelet Tsabari is the author of the memoir in essays The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize and The Vine Awards, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, the story collection The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was nominated for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and has been published internationally. She’s the co-editor of the award-winning anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Ayelet teaches creative writing at The University of King’s College MFA and at Guelph MFA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted is forthcoming with HarperCollins Canada in September 2024.