Workshop in Memoir
with Arnold Thomas Fanning
Memoir can be one of most demanding, as well as the most rewarding of genres to write in, and writers of memoir need to draw on technical skill as well as navigate through issues such as veracity, ethics, motivations & approaches, all the while facing the potentials and limitations of memory.
In this three-hour Workshop in Memoir Arnold Thomas Fanning will guide participants through some of the essential aspects of writing Memoir.
There will be presentations and discussions on key themes, time to read extracts from major exponents in the field, and opportunity to write, share, and critique each other’s work in a structured and supportive environment.
The Workshop is intended for those with some experience of writing who wish to move into, or develop their, writing in the genre of Memoir.
Arnold Thomas Fanning
Arnold Thomas Fanning’s work has been published in The Dublin Review, Banshee, gorse, The Lonely Crowd, The Stinging Fly, Correspondences: An Anthology to Call for an End to Direct Provision, Empty House: Poetry and Prose on the Climate Crisis, Show Your Work: Essays from the Dublin Review & elsewhere. Mind on Fire: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery, was published by Penguin Ireland in 2018 and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.