Writing Workshop: Generative Memoir

Community Room. When you talk about your life, do people say you should write a book? Now’s the time to start. No matter where you are in your memoir-writing journey, this creative writing workshop will help you start, develop, or revise a memoir-in-process. We’ll work through a series of writing prompts, exploring ways to get unstuck, using specifics and sensory imagery, and scene building. Bring paper and a pencil. Suzanne Roberts is the author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay);​ Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (North American Travel Journalists Association Bronze Award for a Travel Book); Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award); four collections of poems; and a craft book: 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer. Named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler, Suzanne's work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays, included in The Best Women's Travel Writing, and has recently appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, National Geographic, CNN, The Fourth Genre, and Brevity, among others. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and teaches in the low residency MFA in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe.