Writing Your Life: An Introduction to Memoir
2026-11-21 10:00:00
2026-11-21 11:30:00
America/Chicago
Writing Your Life: An Introduction to Memoir
Learn strategies to inspire your memoir writing. This workshop will not include in-depth writing; however, bring a pen and paper or a laptop for brief generative exercises and to capture your ideas.
Downers Grove Public Library - Meeting Room Both (Max Capacity 100)
Saturday, November 21
10:00am - 11:30am
Downers Grove Public Library
Meeting Room Both (Max Capacity 100)Learn strategies to inspire your memoir writing. This workshop will not include in-depth writing; however, bring a pen and paper or a laptop for brief generative exercises and to capture your ideas.
Tom Montgomery Fate is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press, 2022), Cabin Fever, a nature memoir (Beacon Press), and Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press). A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Orion, The Iowa Review, Christian Century, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, and many others. Dozens of his essays have also aired on NPR and Chicago Public Radio.
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