Description
Here are the details–
- Level: Beginner to Mid-Level
- Weekly for 12 weeks
- Wednesdays 11 am-12 noon Eastern
- June 4-Aug. 20, 2025
- Live via Zoom
- Participant numbers not limited
- Session dates: June 4 / June 11 / June 18 / June 25 / July 2 / July 9 / July 16 / July 23 / July 30 / Aug. 6 / Aug. 13 / Aug. 20
- Open Mic Night (currently set for Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, 7 pm Eastern Time)
What you get–
- A stellar summer semester spent writing
- Twelve 1-hour sessions of guidance on writing structure, technique, and craft
- A lesson concerning memoir each session
- An engaging class that you look forward to all week
- Time to write–30+ pieces of your writing by the end of the summer
- Writing prompts
- Pages of important, useful handouts in pdf form
- Link to a Google Drive where handouts, readings, & recordings are posted
- Honest, authentic interest in your story & belief in you
- Opportunities to ask questions of Janisse Ray weekly
- Information on printing, binding, & publishing
- Engagement with other writers
- Access to online Office Hours or Co-working Sessions
- A chance to read your work in an online Open Mic Night
- A receipt to file with your taxes, if you have writing income
Why take the course–
You are living a rich, beautiful, colorful, interesting life. You’re full of stories.
You’d like to get them down on paper. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. It’s hard to keep going once you get a few words. It feels like WORK when it should be FUN.
Let me help you write your own story.
This is a memoir course for writers of all levels. No experience needed.
All you need is a desire to get your stories down on paper for family, friends, and maybe the reading public—while you can.
No life is too large, no life is too small. Everybody has amazing stories. All you have to do is recognize them.
Use your memories, family photos, scrapbooks, diaries, interviews, and memorabilia to help you fill out the details of important stories in your life. Your stories are gold.
Get them on paper now. This is the summer to do it. Escape to your writing space for an hour each week spent with Janisse Ray and work on your own life story.
Your investment–
$300
at least 1 hour at your desk each week
& a sincere desire to get your stories down on paper
