Memoir Workshop

Catalog description

A creative writing workshop devoted to the craft of memoir. Students will work with some of the forms and tools of memoir, including personal, hermit crab, and lyric essays, as well as dialogue, description, and character development, and will explore how memoir can expand our understanding of truth, imagination, memory, and why a story matters. To learn more about this course, visit the Creative Writing Program at https://creative.writing.upenn.edu.