Online Advanced Memoir (Video)

This will be a 90-minute all-video class open only to students who have taken at least four terms of Memoir and/or by permission of the teacher.

This special six-week video class is open only to writers who have previously taken at least four terms of Michele Herman’s Memoir class and/or by permission from the instructor. For this class there will be no new assignments. Instead, each week three writers will bring in a six-page continuation of an assignment they began in a previous term, with the goal of working toward a longer manuscript. Critiques will be done verbally in the Zoom class. Everyone will present work at least twice over the course of the term. We will also discuss general issues having to do with memoir writing. Meets on Fridays on Zoom for six weeks from 1 to 2:45 p.m. Eastern, starting July 8.

Register $475

Instructor

Writers Studio Teacher

Michele Herman

Michele Herman’s first novel, Save the Village (Regal House, 2022), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize and is now available as an audiobook at Audible. She’s also author of two poetry chapbooks from Finishing Line: Victory Boulevard (2018) and Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes (2022). She was the 2024 recipient of the Subnivean Fiction Prize, judged by Gish Jen. Her work has appeared in recent issues of Rattle, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, The Sun and many other journals. She’s an award-winning translator of Jacques Brel songs, a regular columnist at the new monthly newspaper The Village Star-Revue, and an occasional columnist at LitHub. She performs her own work in theatrical and cabaret settings in New York City, often alongside her singing husband. She created the Writers Studio memoir track and is a devoted teacher of Intermediate and Advanced memoir classes.