Post #56 – Women’s Memoirs, News – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Memoir Writing Workshops and the Association of Personal Historians
The Association of Personal Historians (APH) has just announced their annual meeting to be held this year October 16-20 in Las Vegas. Kendra Bonnett and I have been invited to present a pre-conference workshop on our Writing Alchemy methodology. Here are the details:
Writing Alchemy: Reach New Horizons in Your Writing
Sunday, Oct. 16, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Coffee service provided 8:00-8:30am & 10:00-10:30am. Lunch on your own, noon-1:00 or 1:30 pm)
Description:
You asked for it! In response to your feedback regarding our 2010 workshops, Writing Alchemy is back as an intensive pre-conference seminar… with more time (6 hours) for writing, reading, discussion, and in-depth teaching. As you expand the horizons of your business or your writing, we’ll equip you with unique and innovative writing tools that will make your words fairly explode with emotion, sensory detail, and energy. Whether writing personal history, memoir, company bios or fiction, Writing Alchemy ensures you always find the best way to tell a story. Our trademark Writing Alchemy process draws from social sciences and real-world observation to put you in control of the words and to help you craft beautifully written stories.
This is a hands-on session. We’ll use PowerPoint to introduce the concept of Writing Alchemy and take you through its 5 elements. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to write and share with your colleagues. We’ll discuss how using each element changes the focus of our stories and even our understanding of the story we want to tell. After finishing the writing exercises, you’ll review the results to determine the strongest, most powerful elements for telling your story. You will leave equipped with the theory of Writing Alchemy and techniques for putting it to work. A fun and remarkably easy process, once you know how.
A Second Memoir Writing Workshop We’re Offering
We are also giving two workshops on the practical points of publishing on Tuesday October 18:
1. Expanding Horizons for Your Book, Part 1: Promotion Ideas Every Author Needs
2. Expanding Horizons for Your Book, Part 2: From a Publishers Point Of View
About the Association of Personal Historians
Do you know the Association of Personal Historians (APH)? If not, then you’re in for a treat. Here’s how APH describes itself:
The Association of Personal Historians, Inc. is a not-for-profit international trade association. The purpose of the Association is to advance the profession of helping individuals, organizations, and communities preserve their histories, memories, and life stories. APH focuses on providing educational, training, and networking opportunities to help professional personal historians, from beginners to advanced, build their personal history businesses.
Want to learn more about the conference and the incredible room rates that APH has secured for conference attendees? Click here to go to their conference page. The full program and fees will be posted soon and we’ll let you know.
In the meantime, we hope you’ll consider joining us at APH for our workshops and for the many other valuable program offerings.
Besides,
you just might hit the jackpot while in Las Vegas, a fun city. And with the great room rate, you’ll have money for a show or a little gambling when you’re not in sessions.
If You’re Interested be sure to send us an email (sent it to: matilda (at) womensmemoirs (dot) com) and we’ll notify you when APH posts the rest of the program.
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