Memoir Writing for Beginners

This 5-week course offers aspiring memoir writers the tools to get off the starting blocks.

Some of the key elements we will be looking at will be:

• Choosing a theme
• Use of time and action in shaping plot
• Flashback devices
• Whether to fictionalise or go for the unashamed truth.

By the end of the course you will gain important skills to sustain you throughout the development of your work.

Participants will also be provided with a list of inspirational memoirs appropriate to the work they are developing.

About the Tutor

Jo Egan has worked in both the professional and community theatre sector in Northern Ireland as playwright, producer and director.

Most recently in 2018 she was International Theatre Artist in Residence at Playhouse Theatre, Londonderry and wrote and directed The Crack in Everything based on the murders of six children during the Troubles.

She is currently Artistic Director of Macha Productions.