Saturday, October 28th
4-6pm
$50/person
Instructor: Lara Jacobs
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
This writing workshop will explore the relationship between memory and writing. We often think of this dynamic as passive–a writer recording an experience or an aspect of her life that already happened. Together, we will consider the agency of writing our memories–how writing can create a new relationship to our pasts. We’ll find inspiration from the fragmented and sensory forms many of our memories take and learn how we can transform these images, lines, and moments into narrative. When we find language and form for our memories, we find new ways of being. Through writing prompts and exercises, we’ll excavate our pasts to create short works of poetry and prose. We’ll speak about writing process, silencing our inner critics, and learning to listen to the whispers of our narrative voices.
No writing experience necessary.
About the Instructor:
Lara is a graduate of Northwestern University and of Boston University's MFA Program in Fiction as well as a semi-finalist for a Fulbright in Creative Writing. Her application was recommended by the U.S. Fulbright committee for a grant, and her project endorsed by architecture professors at the University of Sydney and English professors at the University of New South Wales, in conjunction with their Center for Modernism. Her short story “Pitchers of Milk, Now Empty” was a finalist for the 2021 Bayou Magazine James Knudsen Prize for Fiction. She teaches courses in narrative writing, writing and the visual arts, and travel writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also teaches for Lighthouse Writers' Workshop, for the international Eating Recovery Center, and for doctors and nurses at Children's Hospital as part of the CORAL Arts Program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Individually, she offers private instruction to clients to develop their manuscripts and to find their voices. Visit her website larajacobswriter.com for more information.