Summer Workshop Program 2023

Susanna Sonnenberg Fighting the Ego: How to Get Real in Memoir June 30 to July 5, 2019 Tuition: $650 Workshop: 9am-12pm Discipline: Nonfiction/Memoir OPEN TO ALL On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

This workshop is part of our Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Week.

In a confidential environment the workshop will focus on unmasking the many selves that keep us from putting the truth on the page. Through in-class prompts and daily assignments, we will explore the creative rewards of risk. We will also workshop each other’s submitted work.

Please submit a memoir except or personal essay of no more than 1,500 to Dawn Walsh at dwalsh@fawc.org by June 14.

Biography

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of two memoirs, Her Last Death and She Matters: A Life in Friendships, both published by Scribner and New York Times Bestsellers. Her creative personal nonfiction and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She teaches memoir and other writing classes online and in person from Missoula, Montana, where she has lived for 30 years.