Claim Your Story: Finding the Narrative Arc in Memoir - One-Day Intensive

    Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 10:00 AM until 3:00 PMUTC -05:00


    Sarah Lawrence College
    1 Mead Way
    Bronxville, NY 10708
    United States

    Instructor: Donna Kaz
    Length: 1 session, $200
    Saturday, February 18, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

    A memoir is driven by a central character with a powerful story. When you are that character, how do you develop a strong narrative arc that both unfolds the story and reflects on it as well? The structure and shape of your memoir’s narrative arc will be discussed, as well as how both linear and non linear structures can enhance the forward moving motion of your story. How do themes, details and time lines give your story the energy to propel it from beginning to end. The workshop will include critical feedback to writing samples from both instructor and fellow students. Participants should be prepared to submit and share one, 20 page excerpt from the beginning of your memoir in progress. After enrolling for the class, your 20 page submission must be made by February 1.
     
    Donna Kaz is the author of UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour, (Skyhorse 2016) She is also the author of the plays Performing Tribute, 9/11; JOAN; The Wanderer; A Window and Waiting as well as the musical, FOOD, the musical. She has been published in Lilith, Turning Wheel, Step Away Magazine, Trivia: Voices of Feminism, Western Press Books, Mason’s Road and Hawai’i Review (Ian MacMillian Award). A 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee, Kaz is the recipient of residency fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, The Blue Mountain Center, Mesa Refuge, CAP21, Wurlitzer and The Ucross Foundation.  Her nonfiction essays have appeared in The Dramatist, Ful Art magazine, Girl Drive Blog, Gender Across Borders and the Women’s Studies Quarterly.  Her screenplay, King Me, recently won a Boundary Stone Screenwriting Award. Kaz has been a featured reader at the Pulse Poetry Slam, Carpo, Uncle Mo’s and Wordstock.  She received a Jason Miller Award for excellence in directing, a New York State Council on the Arts grant and two grants from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund.  In 2014 she received an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant to support the completion of her memoir, UN/MASKED. MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Member of American Society of Authors and Journalists.PEN America and the Writers Guild.


    Writing Institute Registration Process:

    Step 1 - Registration Information: Complete this registration form in full.

    Step 2 - Payment: Once you click submit on this form, a new page will appear in your browser with a payment link. Click on the payment link, complete the required information, and submit your payment. 
     
    Payment is required for your registration to be confirmed. If we don’t receive your payment within 48 hours of submission of this form, your registration will automatically be cancelled. You will have to complete the form again if you wish to register for the class.

    Step 3 - Confirmation: Once we receive your payment, your registration will be finalized and confirmed with an email. Please keep this email for your records.  Details about room assignment, parking, and any other information relevant to the course will be emailed to registered students the week before classes begin.

    If you have questions about the registration process, please call us at 914-395-2205 or email sorefice@sarahlawrence.edu.

    Registration is no longer available because the event has been cancelled.