Cooking up memoir, a writing workshop with Jennifer Browdy

Use your memories of growing and harvesting food, recipes, good meals and happy gatherings as a seedbank for writing scenes from your life. Learn how to create vivid scenes and develop the narrative stepping stones for memorable stories in this lively, hands-on writing workshop led by an award-winning memoirist and longtime teacher of writing.

Schedule / Writing Workshop : 1-2:30pm / Break : 2:30-3pm / Reflections and Sharing: 3-4 pm

Jennifer Browdy, PhD, is a professor of writing and media arts at Bard College and the global Bard Open Society University Network. Her award-winning books include Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future, The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir, and the memoir What I Forgot ...And Why I Remembered. She coaches authors, edits manuscripts and is the publisher of Green Fire Press, as well as co-host of the online writers’ community Birth Your Truest Story. She leads memoir workshops in the US, Europe, and Canada, including her popular Riding & Writing tours in Iceland. Find out more at JenniferBrowdy.com.

Free to seniors and youth / "Pay it forward" welcome

***Please note that while these programs are free to seniors and youth (see below for funding support) we do encourage anyone feeling generous to select the "Pay it forward" option. These funds will help secure more free programs to seniors and youth in the future. Look for the "Pay it forward" button on the ticket menu. Thank you!

With help from the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program, Tatamagouche Centre is pleased to offer the Rooting & Connecting Isolated Seniors part 2. Free to all seniors (aged 55+) and youth, these sessions will offer various workshops centred around health. To see other workshops visit the Programs and Events page on our website.

Stay tuned for more programming!