We all have a story or two to tell, and whether you’re interested in capturing a few of the most memorable or writing a full length memoir, this four-week intensive workshop will help get you started. Together, we’ll work to help you uncover your stories, discuss what the memoir wants, and explore storytelling techniques used by successful memoirists.

In addition, each time we meet, we will write, so plan to go home with the beginnings of several pieces you may use for your own memoir. In addition, we’ll discuss ways to dig deep into your writer’s soul, and strategies to keep on the writing path long after the workshop has ended.

Lucy Adkins is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, and her chapbooks include One Life Shining: Addie Finch Farmwife from Pudding House Press, and Two-Toned Dress, which was the winner of the 2019 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize, and a Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. Her full-length collection of poetry, A Crazy Little Thing, is forthcoming from Wayne State College Press. Lucy’s fiction has appeared in the South Dakota Review and the Voices From the Plains anthology. She has also co-authored two books of non-fiction, Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer’s Block and Transform Your Life which was awarded an “Ippy” in the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards, and Fire Inside: A Companion for the Creative Life. Lucy was named co-recipient of the Lincoln 2020 Mayors Arts Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts. Her MFA in Creative Writing is from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has been a writing group and workshop leader for many years.