Event

One-Day Memoir Workshop

For this intensive day of workshopping, each student will bring in multiple copies of a complete memoir piece (five pages double-spaced) or a self-contained excerpt from a larger project. We will spend the day workshopping this writing. With guidance from the instructor, the class will discuss the pieces, exploring their meanings, praising their successes, and offering constructive suggestions for improvement.

About the professor: K. Nadine Kavanaugh is a writer and teacher based in Philadelphia. She reviews films for Philadelphia Weekly, writes for the blog Phillyist.com, and is a Staff Writer for the University of Pennsylvania. She
contributed articles to The Rough Guide to Graphic
Novels, scheduled to come out in September 2008, and
her food writing, including "Foodie Road Trips" and "Regional Treats," appears on the MSN City Guides
website. Her short memoir piece, "Bread Machine Blues," will be published this summer in the City Works Press anthology Hunger and Thirst. Her fiction has appeared in the literary journal Ellipsis and on www.NYCBigCityLit.com and www.slackfaith.com. She has taught creative writing, literature, and composition courses at Columbia University, Yeshiva University, Ursinus College, the Delaware College of Art and Design, and the University of the Arts.