START YOUR MEMOIR with Krys Malcolm Belc
8 Weeks | Mondays, 7 - 9pm ET (on Zoom) | June 3 - July 22, 2024
$500 | REGISTER
This is a course for writers who have decided to write a memoir and would like structure and support in getting started! In the early weeks of the course, we will study the opening chapters of published memoirs, including those by Jeanette Walls, Terese Marie Mailhot, Hua Hsu, and others. We will discuss topics such as tense, point of view, narrative arc, and research in memoir, and will complete generative exercises to experiment with style. In the later weeks of the course, students will have a whole-class workshop opportunity, which will include a written feedback letter from the instructor, with some notes on the provided writing and recommendations for further reading and drafting. Students will have the opportunity to meet 1:1 with the instructor at the conclusion of the course to discuss their memoir outline, structure, and next steps and resources.
Please write to emily@greatplacebooks.com with questions.
Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Counterpoint) and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet). His work has been featured in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Krys is the Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota and lives in Saint Paul with his partner and their four young children.
"Krys Malcolm Belc's singular memoir-in-essays traces how his experiences conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding a child helped to clarify his gender identity . . . 'motherhood' doesn't describe Belc's own experience of pregnancy and parenting. The Natural Mother of the Child attempts to bridge that gap, offering an alternative interpretation of what it means to grow a family." — KEELY WEISS, HARPER’S BAZAAR