VINTAGE HOUSE PRESENTS:
Mondays, June 10 through July 29
Vintage House 264 1st Street East Sonoma CA 95476 707-996-0311
Ana Manwaring’s creative writing classes through Napa Valley College have served writers since 2006. For a decade, her editing business, JAM Manuscript Consulting, has helped many local writers realize publishing dreams. Her short stories, memoir, essays, and poetry have appeared in The Petaluma Post, The Press Democrat, the HLG Valentine, Women’s Voices, KRCB Morning Haiku, Ravenspatch and many anthologies.
Why write it? Why illuminate your innermost self and risk potential pain of ridicule or criticism? You ask yourself this, over and over, even as you name your secret places, confess your transgressions, light up your dark desires.
Perhaps you reveal your wild and strange garden because of that gnawing, burrowing inner gopher. You know the one—nibbling the tendrils of your memories and digging through your synapses in his blind foraging. You know the dark feeding will stop in the light of your pen.
At first you write to expose the bully, the crazy parent, the mean sister, the pain-giver. That may be your catalyst, but will revealing trespasses against you trap the hungry rodents like a hunting cat, pouncing on those unseeing beasts, dragging them from the dark and laying them at your feet?
In the end the revelation is you.
Writing your memoirs? Creating a family legacy?
Looking to publish your story?
This group welcomes beginning memoir writers as well as more experienced writers who wish to explore their lives through the written word, both creative non-fiction (memoir, personal narrative, essay, autobiography) and poetry. Writing craft is discussed in the group and writing topics are suggested. All participants are encouraged to share their work in class.
Mondays 3:00-5:00 at Rianda House 1475 Main St. St. Helena Free
#70755 (Pre-registration at Rianda House) Feb 6-May 22 (no class 4/10)
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