Description

Do you want to write a memoir, family history or biography but need help getting started? Or have you already started your non-fiction piece but need guidance with style and content?

Enter Midge Gillies, a freelance journalist and author of How to Write Memoir & Biography (published by The Guardian) and Writing Lives: Literary Biography (Cambridge University Press).


About the workshop

Midge will help you identify who you’re writing for and how this will affect your style and content. You’ll find out the main ways of telling a true story and how you can use humour, change pace and inject drama into your writing.

You’ll look at the factors you need to consider when telling a true story. From the pros and cons of using different sources – official documents, personal testimony and photos - to establishing a writing routine and maintaining momentum to continue to polish your work.

By the end of the day you’ll have a possible opening for your story, a rough plan for your book and a clear idea of your main sources - not bad for a day’s work.

If you have a strong story to tell and would like the tools to back it, then this is the writing workshop for you.

10am – 4pm

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Venue

This workshop will take place in the workshop room situated on the ground floor of the Writers’ Centre Norwich office, on 14 Princes Street.

The room provides an ideal environment for creative thinking and learning with plenty of space and natural light.

14 Princes Street is fully accessible. Please let us know if you have any access or other special requirements.


About Writers' Centre Norwich's Creative Writing Courses, Workshops and Professional Development.

If you're interested in professionally led, quality creative writing workshops in Norwich and Norfolk then Writers’ Centre Norwich is for you. We run creative writing workshops and creative writing courses covering prose fiction, the novel, poetry, non-fiction and writers' professional development. People travel from all round Norfolk, East Anglia and the UK to come to our creative writing classes: so please keep checking back to our What's On page or sign up for e-news to be the first to hear about our new season of events.