Agenda

Introductions and Agenda Review

“Every story is about me, but I’m not the subject”

Writing Practice: Getting Started

The attraction of first person story-telling: intimacy and connection

Personal and public forms of first-person writing: lessons from each

Break

Practice: Collage of myself as a writer

Telling Enough of the Story, but Knowing When To Stop!

Practice: Childhood Epiphanies

Additional Questions/Evaluations/Closure

“One death is a tragedy, but a thousand deaths is just a statistic.”

Unknown

“I know why the caged bird sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”                                                            James Baldwin