BRATTLEBORO — Write Action is sponsoring a weekend memoir workshop on Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Marlboro College Graduate Center on Vernon Street.
The workshop leader is Ann Anderson Evans. “After years of writing and teaching, I have concluded that everyone has a story,” Evans wrote in a news release. “It’s easy to talk about life, but difficult to write about it.” Evans has been helping people write their stories for over a decade.
On Saturday, there will be two hours of exercises and discussion about the memoir form. Evans will be available to work with writers during an optional third hour included in the cost. Attendees should plan to write a short piece for the next day.
On Sunday, the class will review and revise the writing that they have brought with them. There will be an optional third hour for further honing the pieces on Sunday.
Evans’ work has been published widely in the literary press. She published her first memoir, “Daring to Date Again” (SheWrites Press) in 2014. Since leaving teaching, Anderson Evans has been giving memoir workshops and has appeared in bookstores, libraries, and on radio, and at the Tucson Festival of Books.