Two-hour Online class
What Cheer Writers Club
STRUCTURING MEMOIR
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2021 1-3 PM
Please join me for this online one-day meditation workshop designed especially for writers. For more information and to register, please click the button!
YORK WRITERS
CONFERENCE
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OCTOBER 22-24, 2021
JOIN ME FOR THIS ONLINE SHORT STORY WORKSHOP @ YWC
YWC SHORT STORY
CONTEST
The York Writers Conference will be taking place October 22-24, with Andrew Pyper as the keynote speaker and numerous online workshops. I’ll be leading a short story workshop, Making the Short Story Shine, as well as judging the short story contest (deadline is September 1st, 2021). For more information and to register, please click!
~ Past Events ~
October 5th, 2020
Patti M. Hall and Maria Mutch discuss memoirs, dive deep into the writing process, and share their stories.
About this Event
Join authors Patti M. Hall and Maria Mutch for an hour long event, as they discuss Patti's new memoir, Loving Large, how they've approached the writing process, and the ways they've brought their most personal stories to the page.
The conversation will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
This is a free event. For more info and to register, please click the link. Hope to see you there!
Join Editors Toronto on Tuesday, September 22 at 7:00 pm via Zoom for our first program of the 2020–21 season.
There is something enticing about opening up a book and diving into the innermost world of a living, breathing person. A memoir, when done right, perfectly pairs the narrative style of fiction with the resonance of a true story. At its best, the experience can lead to moments of self-discovery or allow us to see the world in new ways.
How does an editor go about helping an author shape their own story? Penguin Canada editor David Ross will draw from his extensive editorial experience working on memoirs as he speaks with Maria Mutch, whose memoir Know the Night was a finalist for the 2014 Governor General’s Award.
More about our speakers:
David Ross is an acquisitions editor and senior managing editor at Penguin Canada, where he selectively acquires and edits memoir and fiction from underrepresented voices, with a particular focus on the queer community. He has edited several bestselling titles, including Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men, Rachel Matlow’s Dead Mom Walking, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A History of My Brief Body, and Samra Habib’s We Have Always Been Here, which won Canada Reads 2020.
Maria Mutch is the author of the memoir Know the Night, which was a Governor General’s Literary Awards finalist, as well as the story collection When We Were Birds, and the forthcoming novel Molly Falls to Earth (spring 2021). She teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston, as well as mindfulness meditation, and lives in Rhode Island.
Schedule:
6:55 pm — Zoom meeting opens
7:05 pm — Editing Memoirs: A Conversation with David Ross and Maria Mutch
7:45 pm — Q&A with David Ross and Maria Mutch
Want to join us?
To reserve your spot, follow the link: https://buytickets.at/editorstoronto/419102.
Editors Canada members can reserve their ticket for free using the promo code EACMember at checkout.
Non-member admission is $5.
MEMOIR : FINDING VOICE
FOUR WEEKS, meeting every Thursday 6 pm - 9 pm
AUGUST 6th - AUGUST 27th, 2020
This will be a lively ONLINE (via ZOOM) workshop, exploring the fascinating use of voice in memoir and how to uncover our own natural and vital voice, as well as strengthen our relationship to it in our writing.
To learn more and to register at GRUBSTREET, please click the button:
GrubStreet Providence
@ What Cheer Writers Club
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This will be a lively day-long seminar, open to all levels, where you can get answers to your burning questions, new strategies, and tons of inspiration.
LOCATE THE THREAD OF YOUR NARRATIVE
ORGANIZE YOUR MATERIAL
WORK AROUND OBSTACLES LIKE PROCRASTINATION
DISCOVER WHAT YOUR IDEA IS TELLING YOU
FIND THE JOY IN WRITING EVEN A DIFFICULT STORY
LEARN HOW TO FINISH
COMING UP AT GRUBSTREET
IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 2020
162 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO LEARN MORE AND REGISTER
Monday, January 27th
GRUBSTREET in PROVIDENCE
OPEN HOUSE
TO SHOWCASE UPCOMING WRITING WORKSHOPS
TIME: 6PM-8PM
LOCATION: SCHOOL ONE
220 UNIVERSITY AVE., PROVIDENCE, RI
I’ll be there, along with Grub Providence Coordinator, Ethan Gilsdorf, and other instructors. There will also be a reading by current Grubbies in the Student Showcase! For questions call 617-695-0075 or visit the GrubStreet website
SHORT STORY TIME!
September 10th, 2019
7 PM
A READING & CHAT with RON MACLEAN
(I’m excited about this event with Ron
—the author of We Might As Well Light Something on Fire—
as we’ll be reading from each other’s collections
and discussing CURIOSITY)
Newtonville Books
10 Langley Road
Newton Centre
Newton, MA 02459
617-244-6619
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
Afternoon Book Chat with Grant Buday at McNally Robinson Books ~ 2:30 pm
Mainstage: WHERE IN THE WORLD? ~ Manitoba Theatre for Young People ~ 7:30 pm
with Caity Curtis, Stephen Sim, Grant Buday, Lori Cayer, Stephen Henighan, Tristan Hughes
The Boston Writing Workshop
Saturday, September 29th ~ Sheraton Hotel
Tuesday, October 9th
Happy Hour: Adventures in Short Fiction ~ 5 - 6:30 pm
with Michael Hingston, Natalie Olsen, Paige Cooper
Wednesday, October 10th
The Way We Wear ~ 7 - 8:30 pm
hosted by Claire Cameron, with Paige Cooper, Evan Munday, Vivek Shraya, Sherwin Tjia, Najwa Zebian
Thursday, October 25th
Ocean State Writing Conference
University of Rhode Island
a panel discussion:
First Fiction: with Mira T. Lee & Dariel Suarez
5 pm.
Book City window at the Danforth location
Toronto Public Library's The EH LIST
MAY 17th, 2018 @7pm
In Conversation with Erin Fisher
& Toronto Star Books Editor Deborah Dundas
Runnymede Branch
(481 Davisville Rd., North Kingstown, RI)
September 10th, 2016 @ 2pm-3pm
The Ocean State Summer Writers Conference
The University of Rhode Island
June 25th, 2016 @ 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Workshop: Creative Courage & the Memoir
North Kingstown Public Library
Antartica and Autism~a discussion & signing
(100 Boone St., North Kingstown, RI)
McNally Jackson Books, NYC--the Guernica print launch
(2170 Broad Street, Cranston, RI)
Harvard Book Store
December 5th, 7 p.m.
"The Writer's Journey"
with Tilia Jacobs & Tasneem Zehra Husain
(1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA)
Battle of the Books, Brooklyn Book Festival
November 8th, 2015, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
(West Warwick Civic Center, 100 Factory Rd.,
Warwick, RI)
Brooklyn Book Festival / Late Night Library
(Pacific Standard, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY)
Guernica Annual Launch Event
(52 Prince Street, NYC)
15th Annual Book & Author Lunch
11:30 am-2:30 pm July 9th, 2014
(with Joan Wickersham and Dawn Tripp
@ the Dunes Club, Narragansett, RI)
Freerange Nonfiction Reading Series
(with Julia Fierro and Peter von Ziegesar
Culturefix, 9 Clinton St, New York City)
with Michael Freeman & Carolyn Dalgliesh
(53 W Main St, Mystic, Connecticut)
Reading with Carolyn Dalgliesh, author of
The Sensory Child Gets Organized
(300 Spring St., Newport, RI)
Ocean State Writers Conference, June 19-21, 2014
(Reception reading, 4:30-5:30, Thursday, June 19th,
Creative Nonfiction panel with Mary Cappello, Christine Montross
and Nicole Walker, 3:00-4:15, Friday, June 20th,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI)
The Muse & the Marketplace: a Literary Conference
Workshop (with Rosie Sultan, author of Helen in Love):
Writing the Historical Figure in Fiction and Nonfiction,
May 3rd 2:30-3:30 pm, Boston, Massachusetts
Books on the Square, Reading and Signing
(471 Angell St., Providence, RI)
AHA! Reading Series "First Person, Inside Story"
(with Amy Brill and Elizabeth Graver,
Tia Maria Café, 42 North Water St., New Bedford,
Massachusetts)
Autism Fundraiser with KNOW THE NIGHT
(The Chester Playhouse, 22 Pleasant St., Chester, Nova Scotia)
The Freerange Nonfiction series, NYC