Memoir for All: A Writer’s Workshop Experiencewith Sarah Shellow Dive into the magical world of crafting personal stories while discovering your authentic voice. Explore the richness within as you write about what matters to you. Transform your unique narrative into art using writing techniques.
Welcome, Writers!
Everyone has a story to tell. In this workshop series, I will help you find your unique content and writing voice. Writers often thrive in environments where they can play with different writing techniques and share their discoveries with other writers. In an interactive, playful, and supportive setting, we will use mentor authors to teach us how to use craft techniques and inspire each other with our word play!
We will focus on: - Generating ideas for our writing using the sandbox technique
- Using compelling language (word choice and sentence fluency)
- Studying well-written and inspiring literature and poetry for writing techniques
- Trying out different writing styles and structures in our own writing
- Learning about ourselves, each other, and the world through the writing process
About Sarah Shellow
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Sarah Shellow, writing is a conversation with the world. Sarah enjoys supporting writers of all levels find and express their voices using beautiful language and compelling storytelling. Sarah writes memoir, fiction, and poetry. Her own work is informed by twenty-five years of teaching writing to elementary through graduate-level students. She received a Master’s in Education from Bank Street College in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont, and she loves using her background as both a writer and an educator to inspire people of all ages to enjoy word play.
Sarah’s writing appears in
The Pitkin Review,
Atticus Review, and on the poetry site,
As it Ought to Be. A chapter of her memoir about Cuba is in the “Resistance” issue of
Lumina literary magazine. Until a recent family obligation, she taught creative writing and literacy education courses at Stevenson University. She also developed creative writing programs for Holistic Life Foundation and Next One Up, mentorship nonprofits for students experiencing trauma in under-served communities in Baltimore City. Presently, she teaches creative writing classes online for adults and works with high school seniors developing their college application personal essays (here on Ocracoke, too!) She wholeheartedly believes everyone can write when given the tools, and she is excited to offer creative writing classes on the island.
In this workshop we will create fish sculptures/ assemblages utilizing a variety of found objects.
