workshop Rhinebeck, NY

The Art of Memoir

Diving Deep

Dates

Jul 13–18, 2025

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Member: $390.00

Tiered Pricing: $485.00 or less

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Mine your own life for the stories that need telling, and reach deeper meaning, understanding, and compassion through the craft of memoir writing.

Listen to Beverly Donofrio read her writing on stage at the Rosendale Theater.

Discover the life-changing potential of memoir writing in a workshop designed to take you deep into your heart and your past, to mine your own life for the stories that need telling.

Writing coach Beverly Donofrio believes that writing heals. Writing exercises are designed to stimulate memories, which you learn to craft into compelling stories.

It’s in the revising, in the application of craft—scene writing, using specificity and reflection, and moving around in time—that we reach deeper meaning, insight and understanding, compassion for ourselves and others, and ultimately transformation.

Through in-class writing prompts, overnight assignments, and sharing your work, you not only learn craft, but also develop camaraderie and have fun. You may even find that what made you rage and cry now makes you laugh.

When we take the time to write about our lives, we see, as Gerald Manley Hopkins put it so eloquently, "the deep down of things." All that is required is a strong desire and the courage to write the truth.

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Workshop Rhinebeck, NY

Jul 13–18, 2025

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  • Beverly Donofrio

    Beverly Donofrio is an award-winning writer of memoirs, children's books, and essays. The film...