Memoir Editing Group Course

Memoir editing encompasses a few unique elements. Memoir writing and reading are on the rise. The memoir focuses on the writer’s (the protagonist’s) experiences, accomplishments, or life events, telling their story with a narrative arc. The memoir is gritty and gutsy, funny and fascinating, self-critical and self-reflective—a unique genre that invites readers to peer into the memoirist’s struggle to draw meaning from accomplishments and create transformation in their lives.

To achieve this requires skill, honesty, great storytelling, stellar writing, and, above all, knowledgeable editing. In four fully packed lessons, this Memoir Editing course takes the approach of a developmental edit to teach editors the dynamics of the memoir and then how to build it from an idea to a fresh work agents and readers are looking for.