MKCW – ‘Creative Writing: My World’ Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Why Me?
Week 2
Research
Week 3
Focussing on Others
Week 4
Memoir Essays & Poetry
Week 5
Fictional Memoirs
Week 6
Publishing Your Project
Week 8
Autobiography
Week 9
Biography /Special Focus
Week 10
Ghost-Memoirs
Week
Memoir in Live Performance / Special Focus
Week 8
Memoir on Screen / Special Focus
Participants have the option to submit weekly writing for feedback and read their material during weekly workshop. A Final Project option is available to all at the end of the course.
Reading list
Readings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion. It is not necessary to purchase any of these titles as excerpts will be provided in advance.
Miller, Lynn C. et al. Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
Moradi, Rober. ‘Why Write Memoirs?’ Psychological perspectives, 2016, Vol.59 (4), p.473-477.
McGahern, John. Memoir. Faber, 2005.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank. Contact, 1947. (Penguin, 2007).
Others TBA.
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
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