the memoir project
 Writing What You Know: A Journey to Memoir
Do you have a story idea you can’t wait to share? Does that fascinating childhood you survived cry out for publication? Is it time to shine a light on family antics that dismay and delight? Checked in with your thoughts on faith recently? Do original song lyrics run through your head?
The Memoir Project will help you gain access to these life experiences. It’s time to tell your side of the story and find the truth in your own life journey. Participate in the Memoir Project and be prepared to read, write, listen and laugh. If you lived through it, you can write about it!
Your story is waiting to be told. Call (518) 273-0552 x231 today!
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MEMOIR PROJECT CLASSES
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The Memoir Project includes classes taught by renowned writers. Classes are designed to tell your story, hone your skills, and connect you to vaulable resources. Classes include topics such as general memoir writing, poetry, publishing, and more!
Visit the writing page under the class section of this site for a full and up-to-date listing of Memoir Project writing classes.
Writing What You Know
Wednesdays, 9/15/10 -
11/3/11, 6:30 - 9:30 P.M. (8 classes) No class on 5/12.
Members: $353
| Non-Members: $415
Instructor: Marion Roach Smith | www.thesisterproject.com
Flannery O’Connor said that anyone who survived childhood has enough
material to write for the rest of his or her life. She’s right, of
course. But writing about yourself and your crazy (or not-so-crazy)
family can be the big vein, if you’re ready, or the brick wall, if
you’re not. This course will help you dig among your stuff and get it
down on paper in some interesting, funny, enlightening, compelling,
readable and possibly saleable way. Let’s go! It’s there for the mining.
Master Class: Collections
10/8/10 - 6/10/11, Second
Friday of Each Month 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Non-Members: $720.00 | Members:
$640.00
Instructor: Marion Roach Smith | www.thesisterproject.com
So,
you’ve taken the Writing What You Know. Maybe you’ve taken it more than
once. Or twice. Or, well, a lot. So, what are you going to do with all
those essays? Let’s collect them. Maybe they are a book. Maybe they are
meant to be parsed out as pieces on a website dedicated to your family’s
struggle with an illness, or how to get happy, or any of the many
topics in between. Let’s look at them, get them into shape, and get them
out there for the world to read. Limited to 12 students, a one
paragraph pitch on what the book is about,
accompanied by a three-page (double-spaced) writing sample must be
submitted to The Arts Center for review. The deadline to submit is
August 15. Please send to Marion Roach Smith Master Class, c/o The Arts
Center, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180.
Master Class: Memoir with Marion Roach Smith
10/1/10
- 6/3/10, First Friday of Each Month 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Non-Members:
$720.00 | Members: $640.00
Book in a drawer? Book in your
head? If you are ready to work hard, this one-a-month, three-hour
master class will get that book finished by Summer 2011. Limited to 12
students, a one paragraph pitch on what the book is about, accompanied
by a three-page (double-spaced) writing sample must be submitted to The
Arts Center for review. The deadline to submit is August 15. Please
send to Marion Roach Smith Master Class, c/o The Arts Center, 265 River
Street, Troy, NY 12180.
Memoirama! With Marion Roach Smith and Sandi Gelles Cole
Saturday,
11/13/10, 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
(Lecture and Discussion only,
10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.) Members: $120 | $135
(With P.M. Lunch and
Book Pitch) Members: $210 | Non-Members: $225
Everything you need to know, publish, and sell a memoir of any
length. From blogs, personal essays, to book-length memoir, learn how to
tell--and sell--your tale.
10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Learn the skill,
the trade and business.
1:00 - 2:30 P.M. Lunch to be provided. Memoir
booksellers trade show.
3:00 – 5:30 P.M. Pitch me! Pitch your ideas
to Marion Roach Smith and Sandi Gelles Cole, and learn how to turn your
story into a successful published piece.
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 BookMarks: CARA BENSON
Monday, April 19 | 7:00 pm | FREE!
Cara Benson will perform a series of interconnected poems from her new book, (made). Through breath, repetition and trance chant Benson embodies a socio-political process of presenting the performer as both maker and destroyer.
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 Marion Roach Smith and Sisters Online
THE SISTER PROJECT
Marion Roach Smith, the instructor of The Arts Center's most popular class, Writing What You Know, along with other witty and insightful women, offers commentary on art, literature, and other delectable topics on "The Sister Project" site.
FROM THE SISTER PROJECT'S 'ABOUT US' PAGE: The Sister Project is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?”
Visit The Sister Project online at www.thesisterproject.com.
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