Writing about Motherhood: preserve your memories, before you forget
By cori • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: WelcomeAre you a mom with rich stories to tell? Always say you’ll remember this moment forever but know you won’t - unless you write it down? Recording your experiences is actually easier than you may think. And it doesn’t have to take too much time away from your busy day. The Momoir Project makes writing your stories fun, rewarding, and practical.
The Momoir Project offers a series of writing classes for moms of all ages and stages. We know it’s hard it is to find the time to write when you’re balancing kids, husbands, school, work, your house and yourself. But writing doesn’t actually take as much time as you think, once you know how to start. Classes are held just once every two weeks. Writing and reading assignments are small and manageable. And when you’re done, you’ll have six short stories, one long story and many new friends.
You don’t have to write a best-selling memoir. Getting it down is what’s important. Recording your memories and preserving them so you and your children will remember is what The Momoir Project is all about. Whether you’re writing as a keepsake for yourself, or your children, or whether you’re hoping to publish your story in a newspaper, magazine or book, this course is intended to inspire you and get you writing. Get ready to share the highs and lows of motherhood, critique each other’s work, make valuable friendships and contacts, and learn to write a blog, or sell your stories to magazines, newspapers, agents and online publications.
The classes are held in Vancouver, Toronto, Victoria, Seattle and Washington, DC. . There are also online classes. A new online workbook is now available for those who want to do the class on their own time, at their own pace.
cori is an award-winning journalist who has worked in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, filing stories from across the world. Her writing (much of it personal essays on motherhood) has appeared in publications including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent, Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Flare and Today’s Parent. She is the editor of the recently published anthology, Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood.
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