Applications for six class series with Deborah Shepard at the Michael King Writers’ Centrel close next week

Writing your heart out with Deborah Shepard An introduction to the art and craft of memoir

Applications for Writing Your Heart Out memoir classes close next week. The workshops will be led by author, film and art historian, and life writing mentor Deborah Shepard. There will be six memoir classes in the series, which will be held at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport starting in September. The programme is designed for people who have never written before and want to tell their story, and people who already enjoy writing and want to begin writing memoir or to improve their life writing. It will have an intensive small-group format. The classes will start on September 23 and will run to October 28. They will be each Tuesday evening from 6 pm to 8.30 pm at the Michael King Writers’ Centre. The cost is $230 incl GST and the course will be limited to nine participants. Deborah is the author of Reframing Women: A History of New Zealand Film (Harper Collins, 2000), Between the Lives: Partners in Art (Auckland University Press, 2005) and Her Life's Work (Auckland University Press, 2009) and a journal soon to be released, Giving Yourself to Life: A Journal of Pain, Hope and Renewal (Calico Publishing).  Deborah held the Autumn Residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in 2013 and she has extensive experience in teaching memoir.

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